Spring Break

Today finds me blogging for the first time since August. It also finds me happily married for 2 1/2 months. It finds me caring for two of my children, who are sick. (A terrible thing to be sick during spring break). It finds me caught up on laundry and house work. It finds me very tired from cleaning out closets and packing boxes.


Packing boxes. The children and I will be moving from B-Town in 3 months. It feels rather strange that the move is that close. We've been spending quite a few weekends in JC-burg lately, and we've found a church we like. Finding a church family is a top priority in making a move such as this because the children and I really know very few people there, although I have been meeting a few recently. So, moving at the beginning of the summer and already starting to establish ourselves in a church will aid in the comfort and confidence of starting new schools and a new job (hope I find as good a one as I have now). We'll miss B-Town, but we're also excited at a fresh start in a new place. And it IS exciting. I can't help but wonder what sort of work God has planned for us there. I wondered the same thing when I moved to B-Town nearly 13 years ago. God has been good, my friends, so very good. Terrible things happened here, of course, but oh! the blessings that came from them! What He's done in my life amazes me. What He's done in my children's lives amazes me more. And what He will do in the future will, undoubtedly, be even more amazing.

Many people asked me prior to getting married how I felt about living apart from my soon-to-be husband for six months. I always answered the same, that it probably wouldn't be much different than living apart during the three years we dated. Well, I was wrong. (Yes, you read that correctly. I was wrong). It's funny how the very strong bonds of matrimony can anchor so firmly in one's heart, that it's painful to be apart from their beloved. I miss him more, I love him more, and I believe the stretching of those strong bonds - the pain that causes - will make it easier to move when the time comes.

Perhaps that's how it's supposed to be. When God wants to move us, He readies our hearts by giving us the ability to long for where we're going. Perhaps that's how Christ was able to suffer on the cross for us -- because He longed to go home to His Heavenly Father. How great His longing must have been in order for Him to endure all that suffering for us.