God is Good!

Today was the day we were planning on leaving our home at beautiful Monterey Bay Academy to head down to Visalia/Bakersfield to spend the weekend with family. We still have a LOT to do... I am feeling down and out, tired and not really wanting to do anything but sleep. Could be a little depression, anxiety, overwhelmedness (I know its not a word, but it does describe what I am feeling!).

But God has been waking me up every morning this week with a special message just for me. Always encouraging and reassuring. I have to admit, I have not been wanting to wake up at 6-6:30 and am almost reluctant to spend time with God. But He has blown me away everytime! Monday I picked a random chapter in Ellen White's Christ's Object Lessons (after saying to God, "Show me what you are wanting to say to me."). Wouldn't you know, the first sentence was: From the work of seed sowing and the growth of the plant from the seed, precious lessons may be taught in the family and the school...and down a little farther...As they come to understand the wonderful work of God in supplying the wants of His great family, and how we are to co-operate with Him, they will have more faith in God, and will realize more of His power in their own daily life.
Was I blown away??? It was like a big hug from God with Him whispering in my ear, "You are doing what I am asking and I am so proud of you!" It continued on from there and just got better and better. He really blessed me. And has been doing it every morning since.

I had been thinking about starting a blog of our adventure so that friends and family could keep tabs on us. Last night I could not sleep, mostly my fault because I started playing games on my itouch at 2am. After 2 hours (I was not playing games that whole time...) my mind was so wound up I could not go back to sleep. So I figured I could read some more EGW. I picked another random chapter (Asking to Give) and started reading.
I was reading about prayer and how God wants to give us anything we ask for, He longs to bless us. But in our asking, we need not to think only of ourselves but of how we can also bless others. And we need to be living our life for God and sharing His love with others. That is when I strongly felt that I should not only start a blog with just our humdrum days, but of what God is showing us and teaching us. I pray that I can share things from my life that God will use to bless each one of you reading this in a way beneficial to each of you.

So pray for us as we still have several things to do, that could take days...I'll make a little list for you.
-our car situation, we don't know what vehicle we will be taking and we might have a buyer for our van
-finish packing clothing and food stuff
-selling as much as we can of the things we don't want
-all the random little things that need to be put somewhere...
It all seems so little, but I get overwhelmed VERY easy, fortunately Rob is wonderful with everything I am not! And we have been blessed to have friends to help with packing and watching the kids.

Thanks for your prayers! I will have to post the obstacles that we have met in another blog.