Just thought I'd let the world know that there is a little known special event occuring today!
INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!!!
So have a swashbucklin time me harties!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Arthur and I have been testing and seeing that Jehovah is good this past two weeks. It’s been very hard to discern the difference between a sign from Jehovah and just general circumstances. However now I believe that Arthur and I have thoroughly been convinced that we KNOW what it is Jehovah wants us to do... At least for the next year.
So with that comes the prologue to the past week and a half of my existence:
Monday Aug. 28th of last week Arthur got an offer from his old job in Ohio to return and work for them for a VERY generous sign on bonus. With a stipulation that we had to be in Ohio by Friday Sept. 1st if we wanted to take advantage of sed generosity. On those terms it was easy to say no and dismiss it as a fluke and decide to not rethink about the situation. Then came the issue of whether or not we might be dismissing something Jehovah wanted us to do. Then came "The Prayer". Not just a simple run of the mill prayer(granted there really shouldn’t be any of these just flow with me here), but a test and see that Jehovah is good kind of specific prayer. Seriously we felt like Gideon with the fleece. First make this happen and if that works then don’t get mad at us but make this happen next. And literally every single event we prayed about getting an answer to happened "just so". (Funny I thought we were the ones that were supposed to do things "just so".) By Wednesday the 30th we decided to really check this situation out and for Arthur to fly up there and see if it really was all that it seemed to be. To summarize...
Monday we got the offer, Thursday morning he was in Ohio signing the deal. By Friday morning he was looking at apartments and by Sunday he was flying back to Texas thinking everything was a done deal. Much to his chagrin, when I saw the pictures of the apartment he was wanting us to live in for a whole year, I was much less enthused than he was... I will be honest, I’m sure nerves made it more ugly than even the pictures really made it look, however it looked like a dark dank basement and I’d lived in a basement for 9 months before and won’t do it again. I ALWAYS NEED LIGHT!
But that’s all beside the point...
Back to the last few weeks... With this horrible knot in my stomach I approached Jehovah yet again with a specific prayer and by Tuesday Sept. 5th we were in Ohio yet again, but this time both of us, not just Arthur, a.k.a.. Mr. Anti-Photog McGee. Wednesday we had a look at the apartment again (yes it’s lovely and not dark in the least) and I felt the knot loosen it’s grip a little. That afternoon I went to chit chat with some of the girls I used to work with and let them know we would be moving back to the area soon. That evening my old district manager called me up basically begging me to come back to work for them. Enough said Jehovah, we get it, move to Ohio. Easier to say now than it was then. I have to leave a more than beautiful little niece along with all my family, YET again, to venture north. This time I’ll actually have to get an actual Ohio license from the "B.M.V." (why can’t they be normal up there), change congregations again, move our dog yet again (chihuahuas hate that), and go thru the winters. Oh by the way, did I mention there are way more plus’s than minus’s in this scenario. We have a 2 bedroom apt. on Lake Erie on the second story with a balcony. We also have his family right there with us and I am actually pioneering. This time IT WILL STICK! I am determined to not loose that again. I haven’t felt whole since going off the list a year ago and am just finally starting to like myself in the least bit now. All that aside you can see why it is that I haven’t had the time to do any blogging except the occasional comment on very few sites.
What does this long and drawn out story show us other than that as my family has always said, "Jessica can’t tell a short story." Jehovah provides! We have asked so very much these past weeks and he hasn’t let us falter once. It’s fantastic, there is nothing better than feeling the whir of wings. So yes, I will be joining once again to the Ohio population, so what?! Who cares if it’s the arm pit of the universe?! I’m serving Jehovah... There really is nothing better.
So with that comes the prologue to the past week and a half of my existence:
Monday Aug. 28th of last week Arthur got an offer from his old job in Ohio to return and work for them for a VERY generous sign on bonus. With a stipulation that we had to be in Ohio by Friday Sept. 1st if we wanted to take advantage of sed generosity. On those terms it was easy to say no and dismiss it as a fluke and decide to not rethink about the situation. Then came the issue of whether or not we might be dismissing something Jehovah wanted us to do. Then came "The Prayer". Not just a simple run of the mill prayer(granted there really shouldn’t be any of these just flow with me here), but a test and see that Jehovah is good kind of specific prayer. Seriously we felt like Gideon with the fleece. First make this happen and if that works then don’t get mad at us but make this happen next. And literally every single event we prayed about getting an answer to happened "just so". (Funny I thought we were the ones that were supposed to do things "just so".) By Wednesday the 30th we decided to really check this situation out and for Arthur to fly up there and see if it really was all that it seemed to be. To summarize...
Monday we got the offer, Thursday morning he was in Ohio signing the deal. By Friday morning he was looking at apartments and by Sunday he was flying back to Texas thinking everything was a done deal. Much to his chagrin, when I saw the pictures of the apartment he was wanting us to live in for a whole year, I was much less enthused than he was... I will be honest, I’m sure nerves made it more ugly than even the pictures really made it look, however it looked like a dark dank basement and I’d lived in a basement for 9 months before and won’t do it again. I ALWAYS NEED LIGHT!
But that’s all beside the point...
Back to the last few weeks... With this horrible knot in my stomach I approached Jehovah yet again with a specific prayer and by Tuesday Sept. 5th we were in Ohio yet again, but this time both of us, not just Arthur, a.k.a.. Mr. Anti-Photog McGee. Wednesday we had a look at the apartment again (yes it’s lovely and not dark in the least) and I felt the knot loosen it’s grip a little. That afternoon I went to chit chat with some of the girls I used to work with and let them know we would be moving back to the area soon. That evening my old district manager called me up basically begging me to come back to work for them. Enough said Jehovah, we get it, move to Ohio. Easier to say now than it was then. I have to leave a more than beautiful little niece along with all my family, YET again, to venture north. This time I’ll actually have to get an actual Ohio license from the "B.M.V." (why can’t they be normal up there), change congregations again, move our dog yet again (chihuahuas hate that), and go thru the winters. Oh by the way, did I mention there are way more plus’s than minus’s in this scenario. We have a 2 bedroom apt. on Lake Erie on the second story with a balcony. We also have his family right there with us and I am actually pioneering. This time IT WILL STICK! I am determined to not loose that again. I haven’t felt whole since going off the list a year ago and am just finally starting to like myself in the least bit now. All that aside you can see why it is that I haven’t had the time to do any blogging except the occasional comment on very few sites.
What does this long and drawn out story show us other than that as my family has always said, "Jessica can’t tell a short story." Jehovah provides! We have asked so very much these past weeks and he hasn’t let us falter once. It’s fantastic, there is nothing better than feeling the whir of wings. So yes, I will be joining once again to the Ohio population, so what?! Who cares if it’s the arm pit of the universe?! I’m serving Jehovah... There really is nothing better.
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