Every good and perfect gift is from above...

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

In order to accurately finish off our year summary for 2012 I thought I would summarize the last three months with the awesome, amazing blessings we received during this time period (well kinda...one came earlier in the year but fits well here).    

As I mentioned in the last post in June we started talking about Chris' job. We had talked before and prayed but never felt God's nudge in any direction. We started praying and asked several groups of people to pray with us for a direction. In July we shared this with our table group at our Life Community at Westover. It happened to be that the Sunday we shared this prayer, another couple (Ryan and Mackie) had joined our table and the very next day Ryan called Chris and asked if he was interested in marketing with the company he works for. Chris said yes and within two weeks had completed several interviews and had a new job. We were so grateful and still marvel daily in this provision. Chris is loving his job and enjoying the new challenges and learning curves.

Blessing 1 led to the opportunity to start looking at houses here (blessing 2).  We have always been open to God calling us to move somewhere else and had thought about all sorts of places. Now we knew God wanted us here and we immediately called an awesome Realtor, Roberta and started looking at houses. I thought that maybe this would be a fast process and was convinced we were going to buy one of the first houses we saw.  thankfully Chris is patient and talked some sense into me. In September we almost offered on a house when God very clearly closed the door. In late October, we were thinking that it might be time to hold off the search until after the holidays and then it happened, we found a house we both liked a lot. We went and looked at it and loved it.  We decided to offer on the house the next day and on November 4th were under contract on the house.  We knew we were going on vacation in December so decided to close and move the  second weekend in December. We are now all moved in and almost organized and we love our house.

Blessing number 3 to come....!