The Long Way Around & My Crockpot God

So, Toby has been preaching thru Exodus...and not boring as you would expect. Last week he talked about the fact that God knew the Israelites weren't immediately ready for the promised land when they first came out of Egypt, so He led them on the long way around to Israel before letting them in...also talked about how the manna wasn't really what they necessarily WANTED, but what they NEEDED at the time. We've been struggling along with not being on staff with a church anywhere-but kind of enjoying being a part of a congregation that acts, instead of fighting about what we should do as a congregation. Anyway...we came to the realization that we are on the long way around...that our current jobs, while good jobs, are what we NEED right now to survive. Can you see the parallels???
Then this morning, he made a comment about the fact that we don't serve a microwave God, but a crockpot God...one who doesn't always take care of our problems immediately, but makes us wait & learn along the road. Not that He doesn't ever do things on an immediate basis - He still does, but everything is on HIS time schedule, not mine. So, here we are, being patiently impatient while we can sometimes catch a sniff of the wonderful meal/plan He has cooking for us.

As for the summer, we are doing pretty well. The boys have yet to destroy the house while we're gone - and Bob was finally assigned a branch permanently - across the street from mine! Now, if we could get our schedules to match, we could ride together!

Moving across the country

Wow...its been 6 months since I last posted anything...guess I've have had other things on my mind. In the middle of January, the church offered a package to Bob that would pay him thru the end of May and raise $5000 to assist us in moving to Texas to be closer to my family. So, his last working Sunday was February 15th, and we headed out March 5th across the country, stopping along the way to see Bob's family in San Diego as well as Vegas. So here we are, I just found a job only 23 miles away, but takes me close to an hour to get there if there's traffic. Bob is still looking furiously for employment-had an interview with a company called Joshua Expeditions-they aid churches/schools in executing mission trips-somthing he would LOVE to do. The boys are doing okay-Nat is at a school with only 5th & 6th graders...changing classrooms & has a locker already. Nick is in one of 5 1st grade classes of 20 at his school. They are getting settled, altho they still have their moments of missing friends back home.
It has been an adventure to say the least! We are living in a house owned by my sister and her hubby, so we aren't trying to have all 10 of us living in their house.
I'll try to post some more later, its time to get some boys to bed, laundry finished, and lunches made for tomorrow.