We have found a home...

Okay, I know what your thinking and no we have not been looking for a post Navy house and already found one. That would be silly we still have 192 days to go (not that we're counting or anything) before we can tell the Navy goodbye. But after 4 very long years of trying to find a "perfect" church fit and feeling very much outside of the fellowship we so desperately needed, we have found one. There have been many things working against us up here. Ben and I enjoy a more contemporary church which tend to be more nondenominational. Also the Navy hasn't made it easy on us. Getting three kids up and dressed and out the door on Sunday morning is a task with two people, let alone when Ben is out to sea and I have to do it myself. Its even harder to motivate yourself to do when you don't really feel that "click" with the church you are going to. Add to that a very anti-social baby and you have a recipe for disaster. Laney has always had issues with social situations and church was a bad one. Even as a baby, there was no "getting over it" she would just scream and scream until she was back safely with Mom or Dad. We now think that things might be improving because she usually has either her brother or her sister in the room with her. We started at Cornerstone on Easter Sunday and loved what a small quaint church is was. Laney made it through the whole service so I decided to try out a bible study the following Wednesday and she did great!!! Either that or the women in the nursery can see that I need a break to be in the word and are lying in to me ;) We have been back two times since then and even got to go to a welcome lunch to meet almost everyone from the church. It was awesome and a new peace seems to be placed on my heart. We have tried so hard to nurture our relationship with God even without a home church, but hearing his word and sharing in it with other Christians really has been something that has been missing in our lives. I'm sad to say that it is just another thing we will be leaving behind up here. But I must say that as always God's timing is perfect. There couldn't have been a better time in our lives to lead us to this new place of worship for Him. I feel so blessed to see miracles by Him all the time and I really do feel like He wanted to remind us that He is watching out for us in this time of huge changes in our lives and that He is in control of everything. We are so blessed to know His love!!!! 

'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. 'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 'You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 'I will be found by you,' declares the LORD...

Jeremiah 29:11-14