Sunday, June 2, 2013
" I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning back."
Have you ever wished you could go back and change _________ (fill in the blank). Some times I think about times when I wish I would have not said that one thing I should not of said. Or, I wish I would have said something that I think about much later in the day. I think about times when I missed an opportunity or maybe forgot to enjoy every moment of a particular season of my life because I was preoccupied by something else. Some times it not necessarily something that I did not do/say, but just think about different decisions in my life that have brought me to where I am today.
We moved from TN ten months ago yesterday. 10 months! How can that be possible?! Moving to Chicago was anything but easy the first few months of our move. The past 5-6 months we have started to settle in and we really do love the city, BUT it is not easy living in the city. With the upcoming sale of our house in TN ( and the final thing still physically tying us to TN), it has been more emotional for me that I thought it would be. I guess as long as our house had not officially sold, we still had the option to go back. Did going back to TN ever come up? NO, but in my heart maybe it did. Life was just easier. I loved our nice little house with plenty of storage and my beloved washer and dryer. The kids could play in the yard without fear of being hit by a car. I could go home or the store or anywhere for that matter and not worry about where I would park my car. Getting groceries and bringing them in my house was not a horrendous chore. We had a plethora of family and friends that wanted to watch the kids and a support group that we miss terribly. The past few weeks I have several times woken up in the morning expecting to wake up in our house in TN and this was all some sort of dream.
But, I go back to the simple song I posted at the top of this blog. This simple song has been running through my mind when I start to look back at where we were a year ago. It is hard and stressful and some times overwhelming to live here, but this is where God has led us. He has been faithful to us and has proved HIs plan over and over to us. Following God's call on your life is never easy, because it requires us to give up things we think make us comfortable. It requires a surrender of our will and our ideas of an easy life and that goes against what the world is telling us.
We did have the blessing of having a lady watch the kids last night so Jeremy and I could go on a date last night. Our 13th wedding anniversary is tomorrow, so we went out to celebrate a few days early. We ate at the amazing Columbian steak house and then we went to see a movie called Mud. I know it sounds weird, but it was actually really, really good. We went to Northwest Community Church (David Potete's church) this morning and were surprised to see that our friends, Tyler and Kellie Penn, were in town to speak at the church. After church we came home and had lunch and then took a nap :) Samuel and I went to Target for a few items. I have had this weird compulsion to do a puzzle. So Samuel and I picked a puzzle that we will be working on the next few weeks. We came home and started the puzzle and I started to rethink my plan to do a 750 piece puzzle with my 8-year-old! We finally got the hang of finding pieces and got a lot of it done. I was wanting to find a puzzle of the CHicago skyline but Target only has NYC and Vegas. I found a puzzle with birds and it reminds me so much of my Grandma :).
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Yes, he is wearing a sweatshirt on June 2nd. Pretty cold here today.[/caption]
Have you ever wished you could go back and change _________ (fill in the blank). Some times I think about times when I wish I would have not said that one thing I should not of said. Or, I wish I would have said something that I think about much later in the day. I think about times when I missed an opportunity or maybe forgot to enjoy every moment of a particular season of my life because I was preoccupied by something else. Some times it not necessarily something that I did not do/say, but just think about different decisions in my life that have brought me to where I am today.
We moved from TN ten months ago yesterday. 10 months! How can that be possible?! Moving to Chicago was anything but easy the first few months of our move. The past 5-6 months we have started to settle in and we really do love the city, BUT it is not easy living in the city. With the upcoming sale of our house in TN ( and the final thing still physically tying us to TN), it has been more emotional for me that I thought it would be. I guess as long as our house had not officially sold, we still had the option to go back. Did going back to TN ever come up? NO, but in my heart maybe it did. Life was just easier. I loved our nice little house with plenty of storage and my beloved washer and dryer. The kids could play in the yard without fear of being hit by a car. I could go home or the store or anywhere for that matter and not worry about where I would park my car. Getting groceries and bringing them in my house was not a horrendous chore. We had a plethora of family and friends that wanted to watch the kids and a support group that we miss terribly. The past few weeks I have several times woken up in the morning expecting to wake up in our house in TN and this was all some sort of dream.
But, I go back to the simple song I posted at the top of this blog. This simple song has been running through my mind when I start to look back at where we were a year ago. It is hard and stressful and some times overwhelming to live here, but this is where God has led us. He has been faithful to us and has proved HIs plan over and over to us. Following God's call on your life is never easy, because it requires us to give up things we think make us comfortable. It requires a surrender of our will and our ideas of an easy life and that goes against what the world is telling us.
We did have the blessing of having a lady watch the kids last night so Jeremy and I could go on a date last night. Our 13th wedding anniversary is tomorrow, so we went out to celebrate a few days early. We ate at the amazing Columbian steak house and then we went to see a movie called Mud. I know it sounds weird, but it was actually really, really good. We went to Northwest Community Church (David Potete's church) this morning and were surprised to see that our friends, Tyler and Kellie Penn, were in town to speak at the church. After church we came home and had lunch and then took a nap :) Samuel and I went to Target for a few items. I have had this weird compulsion to do a puzzle. So Samuel and I picked a puzzle that we will be working on the next few weeks. We came home and started the puzzle and I started to rethink my plan to do a 750 piece puzzle with my 8-year-old! We finally got the hang of finding pieces and got a lot of it done. I was wanting to find a puzzle of the CHicago skyline but Target only has NYC and Vegas. I found a puzzle with birds and it reminds me so much of my Grandma :).
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Yes, he is wearing a sweatshirt on June 2nd. Pretty cold here today.[/caption]
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