Delectable Thought

Part Two: When You Think God Picked Wrong We're over a month into our new lives here and it's less unfamiliar and just different now. I don't have to use my GPS as much to find places, but there's still that occasional time when I have no idea how to get somewhere. Lots of change has happened this week. My kids started school at our neighborhood school, Lopez Elementary. John Owen was so excited and nervous for his first day that he woke up super early yesterday. We're praying he has a full year of learning and being challenged. So far, I really like their school. It's not the school we originally planned to send them, but I'm thankful we chose our neighborhood school over the charter school. One, we're a two minute walk from the school. I can see it from my driveway. Two, it's helped us meet so many people in our neighborhood that we probably wouldn't have met if we'd gone to the charter school.  His teacher is incredibl...

Part One: The Beginning of New I've often wondered how Sarah felt when God called Abraham to follow him and leave everything. At first, God gave them no direction except to follow him. Did she go with excitement and exuberance? Or did she think it was the craziest idea she'd ever heard? Did she mourn the family and friends she left behind? Or was she shaking their dust off her sandal-straps? Was she a little reluctant in her heart even if she never verbalized it? Or a lot reluctant? I don't know the answer to my questions because scripture doesn't say, but what I do know is she went wherever, whenever, every. single. time. What I do know is that I'm no Sarah. Throughout this process of moving across the country, I've struggled with the realities of my own heart. Before we left Frankfort, I thought I knew the main issues and idols that God was sloughing off, but then we arrived at 4001 Moss Creek Drive and reality set in. I realized that for so long, I'...