It has been said that home is where the heart is. We would agree, but as believers it is really where God’s heart is. How else can you explain this kind of transition – complete upheaval of everything comfortable and familiar, landing in a foreign culture, country, school, neighborhood, and way of life, yet feel like it is exactly where we need to be? We remember praying once “Lord, if this is your will for our family, YOU need to make it happen. You open the door and we will walk through.” We did it in moving from NY to VA, but this time it is almost like a wardrobe to Narnia moment.
It would be foolish to say it has been easy, though. In fact, some of the hardest moments we have experienced as a family have occurred in the past month. But, we have seen, as the Lord has shown us, how each piece, each challenge, each moment was necessary for the next step. We don’t often get the privilege to see the How’s and Why’s in what God is doing. So, when we do, it is truly a special opportunity to see God’s love for us.
Sometimes His love is made manifest through the works of others, as we saw firsthand. We had reached a critical moment here – sickness, stresses of home shopping, and the need to find answers quickly but getting the “Oh, that is in the handbook” response, brought us to near breaking. But God, in His amazing love and timing, provided in an awesome way through a simple conversation over lunch. As Lynette shared her heart, a suggestion was made to have a few meals provided for our family to help reduce the stress. Of course, we agreed, and spent the next two weeks being blessed by meals provided to us by the PSC (Parent-Staff-Community) group. Each night we were blessed by a different main course with all the trimmings, and each evening we prayed prayers of thankfulness over God’s amazing provision. We were starting to feel like it was, indeed, home sweet home.
