Olivias 3rd Birthday invite

Wow, how fast time has flown by since my last post. I sit here, with a cup of cofee in my cowboy mug while Fae naps, and Liv is at nursery. I am completing my online shop as well so that I dont need to brave the shops with the kids this week. I am really basking in my thankfullness to God for what He has provided us! Chris started his new job today. He was very nervous, and although I wasnt very encouraging about his appearance before he left (something I really need help from the Lord with), he left confident in the job God had given him.  We are praying about moving to Franklin Tennessee. I am very nervous but excited about what the Lord may have in-store for us there. We are anxiously awaiting Chris' interview with the US government in London so he can get his visa. Then we will visit Franklin in May and see what God has in-store for us. He will have to open every door along the way, because we cannot do it without HIM! I was reading in my Bible today, proverbs 21:5

The plans of the diligent lead
surely to plenty
But those of everyone who is 
hasty, surely to poverty 

I am struck by these words. I just want to move NOW, but the Lord wants us to wait. Wait for HIS timing, HIS guiding, HIS opening of doors. Oh how hard that is. Just to WAIT! Yesterday I got completely overwhelmed. All I wanted was a dishwasher...I spend hours washing breakfast dishes, lunch dishes, dinner dishes...Im already tired just thinking of all those dishes! All I want is a home that doesn't have mold. That I dont have to hear the slamming of the front door all the time from church goers...the list can go on and on. But I must WAIT! And rejoice in the now. In the fact that we have somewhere warm to live...that we can run the heating as much as we want and not pay a dime. That we have a church family around us at all times that loves us. Wow, that is a blessing.

I am also reminded yet again of these verses, from Proverbs 21:9

Better to dwell in a corner of a 
housetop
Than in a house shared with a 
contentious woman.

And again in verse 19

Better to dwell in the
wilderness
Than with a contentious and
angry woman.

I think of that poor man, having to dwell in the wilderness, or on a rooftop...to have a better life, than in a nice warm house with a woman who is contentious and angry. God help me not to be that woman!

I am truly blessed by these times to reflect, to write, to read Gods word, while Fae naps and Liv is at nursery... at least for a Monday and Tuesday! Thank you Lord! Now I need to soak up all this wisdom from Proverbs and apply it to my life! And stop using my IPHONE all the time when the kids are around!

Faes birth announcement