We did get one answer to one question. Where are we going to live? I know...many of you may be thinking..."didn't they just move to the dairy farm?" Yeah we did. However, the Lord has a much higher plan than ours. Here is the story...
When we were in the hospital deliving Elijah we got a call from our tenants saying they were wanting to move out of the house that we own on East Chestnut Street in Lancaster City and that they were putting in their 60 day notice. We were cool with it..a little overwhelmed with everything else going on at the time, but glad to know that we had at least 60 days to find someone else to move in. Then the journey began of do we sell it? Do we rent it out again? Or...at the WORST do we move back into it? A couple weeks home from the hospital we had officially decided that we wanted to keep it and to try to find new tenants for it. We advertised it in the paper and sure enough we found tenants that we were excited about. They had the lease signed, security deposit paid and a move in date of November 15th. Overtime I had not heard from the new tenants, so I called them on Nov 12...no answer...so I left a message. Called them on Nov 13...no answer, so I left another message. Called them the day before they were suppose to move in...left a message and eventually called me back. Only to say "I am sorry we can't move in." WHAT???? I was SO overwhelmed. We had just moved to Pine View Dairy, had a baby and now we have no one to live in our house in the city. Oh the ups and downs of life! November 16th we had house church at our friends Jonathan and Janelles house. Jonathan was speaking and was reading an article from awhile back about two guys that moved into lancaster city, which then started a wave of young people moving into the city. Simply for the purpose of community living, relationship and for the purpose of seeing Lancaster City taken over for the Lord. As he was reading I was being reminded of why I (and Kevin!) had first moved into Lancaster and why we bought the house on Chestnut Street. I was looking around the room and realized that we were the only ones that did not live in the city, but were a part of this church. Not only a part of this church, but also beginning to step up into a leadership role. Now, I am not saying that you have to live in a city to be a part of that church. However, I do feel like the Lord clearly spoke to me that night that we were to once again move. I freaked out at first, but could not wait to come home to talk to Kevin to see how he felt about it. We came home and I start out the conversation saying, "Hey babe, I think we should pray about moving to our chesnut house again." His literal response was, "I think you should pray about never saying that again." :) Needless to say we both had things to work through. So after MUCH prayer and consideration we both felt like it was the right thing to do. We are TOTALLY excited about living here. The Lord really did a work in us to get our hearts to the place of excitement, but it is awesome being back in the city. So, without further ado...here is our new house. This is where Kevin and I are currently living and plan on living for awhile! (Unless the Lord has other plans!)
We still have many questions on our hearts for the Lord, but we know that he will answer those in his timing. We are trying to be patient and wait upon the Lord for his plan for this next season of our lives. Pray that we would continue to rest in the Lord and find our life and joy in Him!