The Cat is out of the Bag...and every other cliche that works here.

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Well, as the title suggests, everyone now knows. We are indeed moving, and there's no turning back now. We're not JUST moving, we're moving 800 miles North and West to a small town in Arkansas. And we're not just moving there to move, we're moving there because that's where God has told us to move.

I've always questioned God's call on my life. And by question, I mean I wasn't really sure what it was or if God really does "call" us to do things. People throw that word around, "call," all the time. God called me to grad school, called me to marry her, called me to Africa, called me to start a church...  Every time I hear someone say that I think, "that's all fine and good for you. That must be nice to know exactly what God wants you to do with your life, but unfortunately I don't have that luxury." And honestly, I'd question whether God really "called" them or not...But that was just me being jealous.

So after years of thinking that way, here I am. With a "call" on my life, and a new found faith in my Creator. Let me tell you, it is a true blessing to find yourself called by God. It is a blessing, but it also doesn't mean what I always thought it meant. It doesn't mean I know what I'm supposed to do with the rest of my life; it means I know what I'm supposed to do next. That's it. Just next. After that, I trust that the same God who called me out, will call me forward again because my God doesn't change.

And let me tell you, we are ALL called by God to do something. It's not a matter of whether you're being called or not, it's a matter of whether you're in a place to hear that call or not. And whether God has you where he wants you before he places it on your heart.

Two years ago, we couldn't have heard this call from God for a couple reasons.
1. God hadn't prepared us for it.
2. We weren't ready to answer it.

In the past Three years, God has grown us in so many ways I can't even tell you. And all the things we have been through have been preparing us for this. For this call.

So take heart, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them"(Ephesians 2:10). You were created to do His will and His call. He tells us that "You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart."(Jeremiah 29:13). So seek him. Seek hard. And you WILL find him. He promises it. And he ALWAYS keeps his promises.

.Love.
Adrienne