God is good!

After months of waiting, that day is finally here... we got an offer on our house today! I am so excited that I feel giddy, but at the same time, after all of this waiting, it almost doesn't seem real. The most exciting thing is that, although it seemed like endless waiting, the timing was exactly perfect. We really thought that we would be heading down to Honduras last fall, but God had other plans, and at times, we started to get anxious, but every time we did that, God sent reminders through sermons and Bible studies, and our personal quiet times, etc., to show us that we needed to be still and wait on God because He loves us, and His timing is exactly perfect.

Through our waiting, each of us has grown a lot, and God has shown us things that we needed to work on in preparation for our service in Honduras. It has been exciting to see each person grow individually, and for our family to flourish in ways we never have before. Alyssa has applied to and been accepted into an intensive discipleship program, and she will be going there before joining us in Honduras, probably joining us in December, but we'll have to wait and see when God sends her to us. We are excited about her desire to grow into a Godly woman and to be all that God wants her to be, and we are thankful for God's timing in this as well... she was accepted just days before we got our offer!

Today the girls and I drove down to Kansas City with some of our closest friends, and had one of the best days I've ever had... great fellowship and tons of laughter all day long. On the way back, Gordon called to tell me about the offer... the icing on the cake! This morning, we had spontaneously decided to go to a church that Lee, our reliable GPS, selected for us, and the sermon was titled "Wait", and was about waiting on God... the message for this phase of our lives. Although our house has sold, the message is one that all of us obviously have needed to have drilled into us; that God is infinitely more wise than us, and we need to depend on Him, and not try to get ahead of His plans for us.

These next 8 weeks are sure to be crazy, but we are all excited to see how God will continue to work!

 Isaiah 40:30-31 Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and young men shall stumble and fall; but those who wait in the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall soar on wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.