Austin visit

As I'm typing this, I'm sitting in our motel room in Austin, eagerly waiting to see what miracles God will do today.  Jim and I are here for a brief trip in order to look for a job for Jim and to do some house hunting.  We have been learning, as a family, how to listen to God more in our prayers, to hear His voice and have felt lead to come for this week.  We believe, whether this week or some other time frame, that God is preparing us for a move here.  We don't yet know when, how, why or what, but just where.  Austin.  Do you remember the old dungeons and dragons game that Intellivision did YEARS ago?  The one where the little stick figure walks through these dark halls and as it walks only the step in front of it is illuminated?  That's exactly how we feel....totally in the dark, except that we KNOW God is leading us.

It has been so long since I have written that I'm pretty much at a loss for words.  How do you update the last year of your life in a hand full of paragraphs?  To even begin to share this story of Austin and how it began feels overwhelming to me as there have been so many little stories and prayers over the last 3+ years leading up to today.  I hope to begin to unpack some of what we have experienced as I share this week.  One thing that I can say right now, in faith, is that we will look back someday and God will show us how He wove this experience and that hardship together and how He took all of these seemingly unrelated events and created His Masterpiece.  Everything that we have been through and everything He is teaching us right now is preparing us for what He has for us next.  God is in the tiniest of details.

Our plans today involve checking out One Chapel, which is a church our church planted 3 1/2 years ago and spending the afternoon with our realtor, Linda.  The adventure that God has for us today is yet to be revealed but we CAN'T WAIT to see what He has for us today!  We have been praying and fasting, along with our church over the last 21 days, for God to break into our world and other people's worlds and do miracles, heal, change hearts, etc.  We are here, in Austin, expectantly waiting to see what God does.