Life!: March 2008

So it seems that we are moving

Wow things happened really fast, I still am a little numb! Just a few weeks ago we felt hopelessly stuck in a house that was falling apart around us and a neighborhood that was getting more ghetto-like every day. We have wanted to move toward Lansing for a long time now anyway because of church and mostly for the sake of the girls' involvement and friendships there. We also wanted to be more involved with all the people we know there who home school. And we also prayed about the fact that Jeremy is moving to Indonesia next month and mom will be alone. It has been a comfort to us that he has been there off and on over the past several years to help take care of things around there and keep her company. Phil and I have also been hesitant to get involved in church because of the distance and it has been hard to cultivate friendships there for the same reason. So we prayed about all this for a long time and BAM! the Lord answered it all at once. It just so happens that an acquaintance of ours has been trying to sell his house for 3 years and it has just been sitting there empty. He is selling it to us on his own and is working with us even under the worst of financial circumstances. God is so good! He totally did this! We are still looking at our options as far as our house here and will probably have to sell our camper and truck but trust that will all work out too.

The girls will still be able to see their family here as much if not more than they do now as Phil will still be working in Grand Rapids and can bring them in. They will also keep in contact with their close friends here but most of their friends are in Lansing anyway.