Update

Okay, so this thing is getting real now. We put the sign in the yard today. We close on our new house this week- it’s a multi-day process when you close from afar apparently. We have people coming to look at our home on Saturday. People. In OUR home, the home that may be theirs one day soon. Its bizarre. I cant tell you how many times I have thought to myself…. This time last year- the idea of moving was NOT EVEN ON MY RADAR. I had no idea last Summer would be my last Summer in this house…or in Arkansas for awhile…maybe even forever. I don’t know. Shoot. If I didn’t see this coming a year in advance…who am I to know where we will be for the rest of our days on this green Earth? Only place I can tell you I will for sure spend my time is in eternity with my Heavenly Father. Amen. 

            Speaking of my Heavenly Father, He has been speaking into my heart over and over again the last few weeks. Praise Him. Though I am in a rainy season with the Lord- feeling His presence when I meet with Him in the mornings, jumping off the pages of His word- every time I hear from Him it is like rain falling on dry thirsty ground. I want more of it. It is a thirst that can never be quenched. One small taste of Jesus and suddenly I’m more parched than I’ve ever been in my life. I. WANT. MORE. OF. HIM.

            Two weekends ago we went back to Mississippi for a final look at our new home before we close on it. This home is everything we are looking for- and I am so thankful for it! It seems God has handpicked this house out especially for us! More details on all that in a future post… but since we’ve come back I have had a couple of emotional moments (okay days, but whatever) when the reality just sort of hits me. That we are moving from all I have ever known…leaving my family, our friends, all things familiar and regular and normal and I just want to curl up and hide under the covers (and maybe quite possibly take a nap…but we all know that aint happenin’- cue sweet-and-fussy babies in the background).  And since you brought them up, ARE WE CRAZY for moving while we have babieSSSSSS??? I think many of you reading this may be mentally and/or physically be shaking your heads “YES!” But the verse “the wisdom of the world is foolishness in God’s sight” (1 Cor. 3: 19) runs through my head because “As the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9).

            I also think about Habakkuk 1:5 with all of this—the part about God telling us to sit back and watch Him do something utterly amazing that we would not of believed even if we were told about it beforehand…. Because every. Single. Time. that inner panic begins to rise up in me, using fear like a vise I start inwardly begging God to go with us to Mississippi and hold my hand every step of the way. And Every. Time. God whispers back to me…. “Not only will I go with you but I have already gone BEFORE you. I have made your way through the wilderness.”  OH. SNAP. God- You don’t just got this thing- You straight up created it. It was part of our story ALL ALONG. You knew it was coming. YOU WROTE IT IN THERE. This part here, this part about M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, and now suddenly, everything I was just panicking over dissipates. My perspective shifts. He is bringing us there. He wants us there.  And if that’s so, if I really believe Him, then there is no place I want to be more than right there, in Mississippi. Lets do this. 

-Kate