The Future.....

Some days time creeps by so slowly. And other times it flys by so fast. Work usually creeps by. I'm excited for this summer. Jason graduates and our life moves on! This year has been great, don't get me wrong, but I'm excited for new things. We're planning a trip to the Carolina's in the Spring to check out areas we could possibly move to. We want to move! And we fear if we don't just do it right away, we'll never go. It's a sad thought (for us) to be stuck in Minnesota for the rest of our lives. We've had enough of this cold weather and want to be near mountains.

It's hard to know sometimes.....where God wants us. At times it'd be nice to hear a voice from Heaven saying, "Go here" or "Go there." And yet I love the perspective that says, "Go, and if God does not want you where you're going, He'll close the doors." It's my prayer that He does just this.

Where will we work? Who knows? And often my perspective is, does it really matter? Where will we live? Again, who knows.....

All I know is we're not ready to settle down. I can't even imagine the thought of buying a house and paying off the $100,000+ morgage for the majority of my life. And yet renting isn't ideal either. So I suppose we may get a house at some point, An inexpensive house...

You live within your means, you know? I suppose I'm realizing God's made me a fighter. I'm going to fight against materialism. And if I realize or anticipate that something will cause me to drift in a direction other than towards my Savior, I'm going to run from it.

We want to work, but we don't want to become obsessed with our careers. We want a house but we don't want to be tied down to our house to such an extent that we wouldn't be willing to go if God asked. We don't want to starve but we neither do we want to be rich. And yet if God blesses us with wealth it's our prayer that we live the same life, giving any extra money to God and His Kingdom.

I better get back to work. I just needed to ramble for a bit :)