Where To Move, Where To Move??
Posted By Jacque on July 3, 2008
Amanda posted some really great pictures of our trip to Georgia. You should go over and see them after you read this post. heheh!
I was adding my own personal prayer requests to my Keep in Prayer page, and it just turned into a post, so here it is. Please pray for us in this area. It is a big decision and is a part of most of our thoughts throughout the day. Anything we do relates to where we will be moving to.
I have felt for a time that we need to move. About four years ago, I really wanted to move to be closer to our family, and Matt flat out did not want to even think about it. He was under a lot of financial stress and dealing with other church and family issues, and it was not the right timing for him, so I determined to not mention it to him again. And I didn’t. He actually brought it up when LucyLillie was about 2 or 3 weeks old. It had been 80′ the week before she was born, and 2 weeks later, there was about 6 inches of snow on the ground. Being a mailman and having been born and raised in New Mexico, he is not a winter-snow kind-a-guy! He started talking about moving, and inside, I was jumping for joy! I had to have him clarify that he was saying he was ready to move. Well, that was over a year ago, and now, I am still jumping for joy at the thought, but sad and perplexed at when, where and how!
We moved here because we had family close and a better paying job. Now, we don’t see our family much, and the job is transferrable. But, now, we love our homestead. But we miss our family in New Mexico. And, Matt hates working in the winter weather, and we HATE the mosquitoes, which do not allow for our children to play outside most of the summer. However, my grandparents are still alive, and they mean a lot to us and our children, but they are 90 minutes away, and we don’t see them much.
We (and I mean me, but I know we all feel this way) want to live closer to my Mom and sister, and Matt’s parents. We would like to be closer to his parents so we can build a closer relationship with them. We do not particularly want to live in New Mexico, but I don’t know if that means we aren’t supposed to. I long to be within walking – or at least driving- distance from my Mom and Sis and my In-laws. we have lived here for 11 years, in this area, and as much as we have learned and become, I count the years away as losses to our family relationships with our parents and Grandma Dixon, who is now waiting for the Lord’s return to be taken up with Him, and we certainly missed out on knowing her for this time.
Now, we have an addition to finish and other things to spruce up on our house, like floors to finish and windows to replace and drywall to repair. The addition is about 80% done, and just waiting on the heating system, the flooring and finish work, a lot of which we can do. Before we went on vacation, I was having a hard time with the prospects of leaving a house we have not yet lived in as finished and one that 3 of our little babies were born in. When we had been at Aunt Barbara’s for a day, God changed my heart. I sat there, looking around, and a thought came to me. We had already visited and stayed at two other friends’ homes. I thought to myself that we can be content elsewhere. Wherever we live, in whatever home, it will be ours. That was a word from the Lord. I had been lamenting for months about leaving. Now I felt peace.
When I came home, I sat in the same spot on the couch where I could see the same view of the barn (that I adore), the mailbox(that we all worked on putting up as a family) and the garden area, and it all looked different than it ever had. I am content with moving. Now, don’t get me wrong, it will take a whole box of tissues to leave this favored homestead, but, I am ready to go when we do.
I look forward to knowing. That is all. I just want to know. That’s me. but, I’ll wait. That’s not me, but the Lord. 
When we were traveling, I realized that some people will never make a big move. They may move around their area, but not the 1500 miles we have moved 3 times we have already and the one more we plan to. It is a huge decision. I am trusting in the Lord, and apparently, the time has not yet come for us to know when and where yet. but, I know I don’t want to move without Him and his plan.
If you want to know about that picture of LucyLillie, go over to Amanda’s now and read her post!
blessings!
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Jacque…I’ll be praying for you as you wait for all the details to be revealed.
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Well… you still haven’t visited Northern California.;O)
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It’s all in God’s hands, Mama. He will give us guidance and direction and peace about where we are supposed to be!
I am praying too! Just check out your SP&P: rest in Jesus!
Love you Mama
Amanda
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Well I am praying that God’s timing for you to move is only a very short time away..I MISS YOU ALL SO TERRIBLY! I love my home too…but as I read this blog I know I am ready too. When God says go you just go no matter when, where or how and I’m certain it will be a closer distance to all of you; well….I mean after you move this way! HA…I don’t feel a leading to cold weather either Matt!
Love to all,
Aunt Jen
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[...] Yes, we are in shock. This may be one of those, “I won’t believe it ’til I see the moving van pull out of the driveway” type things, but it is still a shock. So, there is one family we won’t have in Las Cruces to move near to. hmmmmmm….. [...]
Hello! We will be in prayer for your family. We are getting ready to move again. We are moving 1/2 mile from our current home to another farm. Even though we are not moving very far it sure is alot to pack up and move. I am going to need to figure out how to move some of my heirloom tomatoes. Blessings to you, Sharra
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Thanks for the update Sharra, and the prayers. We will be praying for you too. When I was talking to the children yesterday, I said how I am not looking forward to packing and moving everything, and it hit me the immensity of doing it. It IS a big deal and a lot of work!
I am sure your tomatoes will be fine. Probably just cutting them as small as possible to move them, and they will take right off in their new home! We have not gotten much done garden-wise this year, with vacation and all.
It took us about 2 weeks to prepare for the vacation plus, then, the 2 weeks we were gone. It doesn’t give much time for a large garden. Besides that, I don’t want to spend time planting, only to have the chickens scratch and eat all the seeds. So we need a fence. sigh. More work!!
I hope you have an uneventful and blessed move!! And we still have that goat, if you are interested in her!!!
blessings Dear~
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I just saw this post. After the roller coaster that has been our life this past year I can say with certainty God DOES have a plan but it can be a solution that you never could have imagined. God answered my prayers & gave us what we wanting/needing but in ways that I never, in a million years, could have imagined on my own. It was truly awe inspiring to see the pieces all fall into place & find ourselves in the most perfect house imaginable. God IS in control, and in His time and in His way it will all fall into place (but man is waiting for the unknown hard on us planner-types LOL).
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