"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." Helen Keller
We just had the birth of our first daughter. Lucas is about to graduate in about 3 weeks and he got a job at the career fair. We will be moving this summer to a new city, new house, and he will have a new job.
I have to say its funny how much we can plan for our lives and how much actually happens. I knew I could trust that God was in control and had bigger plans for us, but He truly ceases to amaze me. I can write forever how good God is to us and His enduring love, but for now let me just tell you about this job thing. :)
Entering marriage we knew we would love and sacrifice for one another. Our 1st year was blissful, it was easy no troubles, besides adjusting to one another. Then we had our 1st son and things got bumpy. I struggled to finish my degree, while pregnant with our second son. I had planned on working after I finished, but now knowing how demanding teaching is with two young children made me think twice. All this time my awesome husband went part time to school so I could finish. He also worked part time and watched Lukrik while I student taught.This is sacrificial love at its finest because when we give of ourselves that is when we receive the most. So when people say your finally graduating, he says, "Yes and I also have my wife and 3 children with me." So it may have taken him a "long" time but he is finishing and not with out a lot of hard work, perseverance, and Jesus!!! I have to say I am so proud of him and grateful at the blessing of his love for me and our children. I was truly blessed with the most loving, giving, hard working, kind, and sacrificing man ever!! :) I also want to thank him for being open to our Lord's will in his life, no matter how hard it can be at times.
Now he just went to the career fair a few weeks ago and did a few interviews with 6 different districts in our city/state. One of those out of city offered him a job right on the spot!! :) We had two weeks to respond and it was a difficult decision. We had prayed starting last year that when the time came he would have a job by the time he graduated. Boy, did our Lord answer it!!!! For us even if we have to move out of Las Cruces and navigate another city our main concern was having a job. It will not be easy and the hard work is only just beginning, but we fully trust that the Lord has brought us to this and we can't reject His blessings.
I will leave you with this last thought, if we but merely ask the Lord, He will provide. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7
It may take us from our comfort zone and test us. Nonetheless we will be together and have our Lord no matter where life takes us. " What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8: 31-39 :) <3
