Today is the Day!

Today is the day that we actually do something hard in our journey to Fishers, IN. Up to this point, all of our decisions were relatively easy. We had to finish remodeling our house and get it on the market. We then went through several months of waiting for our house to sell. Once it sold, we had the extremely fun process of finding a home here. We then had to move, which was hard physically, but that's a different kind of hard then what's happening today. I have enjoyed every step of our journey so far. Even moving, though hard, was so much fun! We absolutely love our new house and it was so much fun getting settled.

So, what's happening today? Well, Doug is quitting his job. His perfect, cushy job. His job that pays very well and has awesome benefits. Not only do those things make this step hard but also the fact that he doesn't have any kind of job lined up here. Crazy right? I'm scared to death. But honestly, even though I'm scared, this is my favorite step so far in this journey. God has placed this call on our lives. I look at the other families that have moved here, and I can see the ways that God has worked everything out for them. I just Know that He will do the same for us. I'm excited to take this step and show God that our faith is in Him. It's not in a job, it's not in my husband's ability to provide for us, it's all God. So while I'm scared, because let's face it, we can trust and have faith, but we're still doing something scary, I'm also not worried. I KNOW God will provide, in His time. That's what's going to be the hardest part, having patience. Waiting on God's perfect timing.

I was reading in Genesis 48 today about when Jacob blesses Joseph's sons. Here's what happened:

14 Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said:

“God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
16 The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
Let my name be named upon them,
And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

17 Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

This is what the commentary said about these verses:
But in the blessing Israel crossed his hands so that his right hand was on Ephraim’s head and his left on Manasseh’s … even though Manasseh, the firstborn, would normally have been blessed with the right hand. This was Jacob’s decision in spite of Joseph’s direction. Joseph, like so many others, expected God to work in a certain way, but found that He is often pleased to work differently and sometimes even unconventionally. But faith recognizes that God’s ways are not man’s ways.

I am so thankful that God's ways are not man's ways. I am so thankful that God, in His infinite wisdom will make everything come together in His perfect time. My job, to wait.