I have now lived in North Carolina for 4 years.
Note to stalkers - I no longer have a KS tag
For the life of me, I can’t exactly remember what day I moved here, or the timeline of that move. My parents and brother helped drive me and my belongings out here: my dad and mom in the Budget truck, Riley in my parents’ Explorer, and I in my week-old Toyota Camry. We took 3 days to get here, stopping by Mammoth Cave and generally enjoying the miles and miles of construction zones…without a single construction worker. We never quite figured out why there was no one working in any of these places, when it was not a normal weekday during normal hours.
Unlike my first blind move (to go to school in Oklahoma), I knew this time that I had hard times ahead of me. I had an apartment (with roommates I had never met) and a school that I would be attending in the fall, but that was all I knew about my future life. Sure, I had already applied for the job that would soon be mind, but I had no idea at the time that that would be the case.
I moved to North Carolina in order to attend seminary. My thought at the time was to get a seminary education, and then head up a women’s or children’s ministry somewhere in the West (my top choices were Phoenix, Salt Lake, and Portland). Instead, I’m happily staying in North Carolina, working with the children at church as a layman, and working a secular, non-profit job in a field I had no prior experience in.
Little did I know that day 4 years ago that God was bringing me home. Sure, my real home is in heaven, but that heaven-on-earth, my church family, was right here.
that is so cool! i love when we get an affirmation that what we are doing and where we are is right. good for you for finding home. :)
There’s no place like home.
What a great post. I was curious about why you ended up there and how and so it was fun to read the “behind the scenes” of it all in a way. I love how God works to surprise us like that sometimes! It sounds like you are set up beautifully to enjoy everything. =) Glad you are home!
@Carrie: Thanks…I guess I’ve never really talked about all this before! I guess I just assume people know things, but how would they?
It sounds like things worked out wonderfully for you.
Four years…it seems to me like forever. How wonderful to know that you feel you are at home and where you are supposed to be. WAIT…WAIT…WAIT…I think this comes to me every day. Even at my age situations happen that at the time I don’t understand…then suddenly, in HIS time, I do.
WAIT…WAIT…WAIT…I am so thankful.
God definitely does amazing things with us, when we allow Him to. I never pictured myself working at a non-profit, and yet I love what I do.
Thank you so much for your prayers for the boys and me during our recent scare. Both boys appear to be doing well after the surgery, and we’ll get to take a look with the ultrasound again tomorrow. Your support was very much appreciated.
Congrats on four years! Sometimes where we’re going is where we are truly meant to be.
It is definitely interesting where we are led, whether we know why or not! Life moves in so many directions! Glad yours is in such a good place!!
It’s funny how differently things end up from our plans. You are right where you’re supposed to be, what a happy thing.
I know how you feel. GA feels like home to me, even though I was born (and kinda raised) in CA. It’s interesting where God puts you, isn’t it?
aw… thats great!!! i’m so glad you feel at home. its quite tough moving your life somewhere else.
Thanks for the look back! It makes you realize you have no idea where you’ll be four years from now, either!
Isn’t it strange how life turns out to be so different from what we imagine and plan for it to be?
God moves and places us where He needs us. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense or fit the plan ‘we’ create. lol I know it’s very true for me!
My question to you would be, and maybe it’s post worthy, I’m having transition problems where I am…. how have you progressed, what helped and what would advice would you offer for someone who needs a bit of help blooming where they are planted?
I love how God always takes us to the unexpected yet perfectly-right place for us. :) May He keep blessing your with surprises!
Life is so unexpected yet right!
So glad you’re where you are supposed to be.