Making the move

Life has been beyond busy for the past few months. We have packed up and shipped out of Orlando and I can say that beyond the intial nervousness of another big move, there has been alot of peace since leaving.  We miss our church family, but that's about it! If I had to name one thing that I learned in the three years that we lived in the Orlando area, it would be to trust God!

The peace that goes beyond!

Me & the birthday cake! 😜

It's my birthday and it's been a really good one! My mom watched the kids while my hubby & I went to brunch & a movie...ok, so we had the baby with us but it was still a really good day!
Life has been pretty interesting in the last few months....hubby started a new job, we made a major move, and through it all (even my uncertainty) there's been a supernatural peace. I finally understand the "which surpasses all understanding" part of philippians 4:7
Sometimes we just don't "get it" but God does and he's with us always and his plan and ways are always good! In the few weeks since we moved, he's really been dealing with me on that. When the journey gets confusing or the road foggy & I just don't really understand what God is doing, he's still asking me to trust him.
When my husband first told me about this job, I was fairly certain that it wasn't the direction we were supposed to go, but the door opened so wide that there was no denying we were supposed to walk through it. It wasn't easy though! We spent 2 months only seeing hubby on the weekends and I may have fought a bit against the transition at first, but I still had peace in the direction we were heading. It looked different than the path that I believed God had us on, but even when my mind said, "but why now" or "why there?" There was the other part that said, "i'm just going to trust you anyway!" And that has been really liberating b/c the "what ifs" still pop up occassionally, but the "I will trust God" has been so much bigger this go round. How freeing it is when we actually let go & leave it in God's hands. Not just with words, but in our actions & mind too...it's when you don't have the answers and what you see looks different than what you thought, but you make the conscious decision to trust God's plan over what you thought or wanted anyway & you just go with the flow. I can't say that i've always gotten that right, but i'm learning. It sounds crazy & sometimes it looks even crazier, but to experience this peace that goes beyond all understanding in the mist of all of the craziness is worth putting your trust in God's hands.

What I'm listening to this morning!

I'm so grateful that God's mercy is new very morning!

  

Lamentations 3:22-23

22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;    his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning;    great is your faithfulness.

Blueberry pancakes & season changes

I can't say that when speaking of food, i'm the most adventurous person to eat with. Truthfully speaking, I tend to always get the same thing when we're out at restaurants because I don't want to pay for something that I might not like.
I generally cook the same things, buy variations of the same foods to stock in the pantry, and breakfast is typically grits with adifferent meat each day. Well, last week my mom made blueberry pancakes & bacon for breakfast and I was beyond estatic until I realized that they had blueberries in them! What's wrong with just normal, plain, original pancakes? I thought. So, i skipped pancakes & had grits with my bacon. Truthfully, i've never had pancakes any other way, but plain. Mom ended up making them again and baby girl #2 came to me and said, "mommy, you have to try these." I must have had the look that said i would decline because she looked at me pleadingly & said, "mommy, trust me! They are really good!"
I tried them and I have to admit that they were fantastic...so good that i went to the store, bought my own box, and have been cooking them every morning since. On a much deeper note, my daughters pleading reminded me of this season that seems to be changing again. We have another big move ahead and though there's peace because we prayed hard before making a decision, there has been moments where fear of what's ahead has tried to dig its ugly fangs in and cause uncertainty. In those times I remember 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 

And like my daughter I believe that God is saying, "Trust me Carla, my plan for you is really good!" So, I've surrendered all worries, fear, selfish ambitions, and even my own expectations. In this new journey I have chosen to just simply trust God!