So I am sitting here this morning and I am realizing that not only have I not posted in a little bit but that there are a ton of things going on in our lives and haven't shared a one. That being said I will try and keep you up on whats up.
We are trying to move currently. It is amazing to think that it has been a while year that we have been in Syracuse but it has. God has done some amazing things in that time and we (Alaina and I) were just talking the other day about what God has done just in the year we have been here. We have had and are continuing to have the great opportunity to have front row seats as God is moving and changing lives all around us! (Thanks Jim) OK so back to moving. Alaina has been looking for houses for the last five months and has found it very difficult to rent a house that is in a good neighborhood and will let you have two huge dogs. Which really is ridiculous because everyone who knows our dogs knows they aren't too huge......well maybe Harley but he is nothing more than a drooler. Early last week we totally found a place and went and looked at it twice but when it came down to the landlord to make a decision on the applicants they picked someone else! :( Yet we move on and keep our heads up as we trust Gods timing....we may not like to wait that long but I know that there is a plan in all this. God has always been faithful and He remains faithful IN HIS TIMING. Still a tough place to be....
The whole reason behind moving is so that we can have foster kids in a new place. We cant have them where we live now because the bathroom is inside one of the bedrooms. So again we have been waiting for kids.
I feel like Joshua. Poor guy goes into the promised land as a spy for Moses. He gets the great opportunity to see where his people will go and live and flourish and yet he has to wait to enter. All that time knowing what is looks like and how cool it would be. As I write this I feel God convicting my own heart as I wait to work with youth and children full time. I know the task and the vision God has laid in my heart and yet I am in a holding pattern right on the edge of entering. Joshua remained faithful and God used him in mighty ways when they finally entered the land. All those years Joshua had to be frustrated and had to wonder what it would be like in the promised land.
My prayer for me and my wife through all of this is that we would place our hope in the promise of God. He has drawn us to this place to play a small part of His huge plan to redeem this city for His glory. So that every person that lives in the county surrounding Syracuse, would have at least one chance to experience the gospel. Our journey, though it is important, takes a back seat to Gods plan to take this city back. His plan fits together perfect and the more we sit and think about the things that LOOK perfect to US the less time we spend having intimate relationship and dependency with the Father.
Pray for us as you read this, for strength, discernment, guidance, and most of all obedience to the one who loves us the most.
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