Here we are...

Well...we made it back to Texas! We found a town-home to rent while we focus on getting established here. We were a little disappointed when we moved into our new home. It was, quite honestly, nothing like what was promised. The carpet was missing in several areas and what there was of it reeked! The place was dirty and damaged and I was afraid to let Parker down to run around. Thankfully, we documented everything and sent it to the leasing office. We had brand new carpet put down within a week and repairs made. That, coupled with a good cleaning, and some pictures on the wall made it feel more like home. The next roadblock we faced was getting my husband employed! Zach had so many interviews in the month of July that they all started to run together. A lot of interviews, yet no offers. We were starting to feel that maybe we misunderstood where God wanted us to be, when we saw an episode of Joel Osteen one Saturday night. Joel talked about facing extreme challenges when you've been faithful and how that is God's way of strengthening you and raising you up for bigger things down the road. We both took that to heart and it changed our outlook on the situation we were in. So, here we are...August 3, 2009. Zach was offered 3 jobs at the end of last week! He accepted a position with Covenant Hospital and started work today. Parker is thriving at Hope Lutheran. I love that my little boy is in a Christ-centered school. He came home a few weeks ago and told me "Him saw Jebus at skoo!" That roughly translates to: "Mother, I saw Jesus at school today when we went to chapel time." He makes me laugh. I really feel we're right where we are supposed to be and that we are all growing in the process. I'll end this with some lyrics by Matthew West that have really been on my heart lately:

I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"