3 weeks in....

David and I are starting a new adventure this next week.  We are moving out to Camp Horizon and I'll be the new graduate intern for the year! Both of us are super excited!! This position is truly a blessing to both of us.  With David still having a year left of school we knew I would have to look for a position around this area. In the spring we both started looking for jobs particularly in the Augusta area.  Both of our families are from that area and we wanted to be close to them.  We weren't really sure what there was for us out there but knew that was where WE wanted to be.  Both of us had some interviews and were pretty hopeful about getting the positions.  Looking back on that time it was stressful and empty time for me.  I can't speak for David but for me I wasn't in tune with God on the whole thing.  I would pray and then turn things into what I wanted.  I didn't listen to what God was telling me.  I felt this uneasiness in my spirit and I knew what it was about but I ignored it.  When the job I was interviewing for fell through I couldn't ignore the uneasiness any more. I began to get a little freaked out.  Graduation was approaching and we still didn't have jobs.  I had an internship at a local church for the summer but nothing after that. Horizon contacted me about the intern position. I knew that this was where God wanted both of us.  I no longer had the uneasiness.  I was excited and energized by the position (another sign that this was where I was supposed to be).

We recently started our move out there.  A little earlier than planned because our air conditioner went out. Not a bunch of fun when you live on the top floor and the low for the day is 108! But Joel and the rest of the staff were super nice and let us move into one of the rooms early! Another blessing! As we were moving I started to get nervous about the position.  Was this really the right choice for us? Did I just put us in position that wasn't right for us? Is this really what God wanted for us? My stress level went up and my brain went into overdrive.  I tend to over think things and that's what I started to do.  David and I spent a good amount of time talking about how I was over thinking and that this would work.  That this was really what God wanted.  But he's my husband, he had to say that stuff.  If I talked to my best friend though she would tell me  what was up.  She would be honest with me.  And she was, I didn't fill her in on everything I was thinking and without her really knowing she confirmed what David was telling me.  God just kept reaffirming that this was where he wanted us.  I know that camp is where we are supposed to spend the first year of our marriage. 

I can't put into words how blessed we have been these first few weeks in our marriage.  I don't know why I am so often amazed by the how God works.  I don't know why I often find myself doubting him and the way he works.  God has never left me hanging before, so why would he start now?  He has always provided for me, and I don't know why I forget that.  

 I'm so excited to start this adventure with David.  I'm excited to see God's plan unfold for our life together.  And we are so blessed by the people who are in our lives and those who get to experience this part of our marriage with us.  

So to sum up the first few weeks of married life, it has been stressful but not in a bad way.  We have learned a lot.  We have been reminded of even more. We have been blessed in many ways that I'm sure we won't even know about until we look back.  Now to sit back and experience this chapter of our life together.