a new thing (the where)

God is doing something fabulously new in our lives, but if you had run into me a couple of weeks ago, you probably would have seen me crying. I think that I cried for about a week straight.

Someone would ask me a question: tears.

Someone would smile at me: tears.

Someone would look at me: tears.

Well, you get the idea...

But, even though my tears were in part from sadness, a much bigger portion of my tears were the result of overwhelming gratefulness to our God and what He is doing in our family.

You see, for the past number of years David and I have sensed that we were to do something new, something other than what we had been doing (though certainly involving aspects of what we were already doing). We prayed, sought the Lord, talked with one another and asked a few close people in our lives for input and advice.

And even though we felt like the Lord was giving us clarity and direction about a number of things, there was absolutely no place to live it out and no one with whom we could share in this calling. We knew, without a place and a people we would not be able to fully respond to all that He was asking of us.

So we waited.

And sought Him.

And waited some more.

But now, praise be to our amazing, faithful, and all-powerful God, we are no longer waiting!!!!!

(And as a beautiful side-note, we now understand much more of why He was having us wait in the first place.)

I will share more (of the what, why, and with whom) in the weeks to come, but for now I'll simply leave you with a snippet of where it is that we are going: