We are moving in many ways right now....and it is causing big change for me.
First way- moving through the process. We are on the final step- mental testing. We are not having to go to Michigan. We are being tested right here next week. One kinda short test and one test of 550 questions!!! If I wasn't mental before, I will be afterward!!!
Second way- moving out of the house. We are putting the house on the market Sunday. Please pray that is sells quickly. We are planning to move out in April regardless into the one bedroom apt at mom and dads. If that doesn't help get us ready, nothing will.
Third way- moving stuff out of here. Planning to have another sale next weekend and get rid of a lot of stuff. I never realized how much stuff we have accumulated. It is such a freeing sensation to get rid of all of this. I will be so much happier with less to worry about.
One thing I have noticed through all of this is how attached we are to having a home. I didn't realize how much a part of who I am is connected to my house and stuff. I have noticed that in getting rid this stuff and the feeling of security from things, I am relying more on . We, as Americans, have fooled ourselves into thinking we need all this stuff to be happy and secure. But the more I purge, the more secure I feel. I want my faith to be just that. Using things for security was robbing me of that blessing of relying on for safety, protection, belonging.
I do not want to be defined by what i drive, live in, wear. Without all of these distractions and idols, I feel free to find my meaning in who I am in . This concept is just settling over me and it is amazing.
More to come.....
Year 2
The Great Wall
Friday, March 27, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I am amazed daily......
The further we get in the application process, the more convinced I am that clearing a perfect path for this is all fall into place. Daily sends things to me, reassurances that this is the path for us, the plan for our family. If you had told me a year ago this would be happening, I would not have believed it at all.
I am still hard a work, cleaning out closets, clothes, cabinets. It is a major deal- you do not realize how much "stuff" you have accumulated until you try to weed out 50-70% of it.
I am amazed at how is working through facebook though. The day I put my status as "cleaning out for sale" I had an old classmate message me wanting to buy any and all kitchen stuff. Also he wants teen type clothes for his daughter- two things I have a ton of to sell.
Then got a serious inquiry about the house...and we aren't even showing it for another 2 weeks!!!! Plus a friend had 2 people at work ask her if we were selling- they were interested too!!
Another concern I had was my tutoring students. I have done this for almost 13 years and some of them have been with me for 6-7 years. And at this time, I do not know of anyone else in Gaffney tutoring. I was really getting anxious about what would happen with them....and the kids and parents are too!!!
I have prd about it and poured my heart out. These kids I have grown very close to. I had one the other day making a book for school and he asked me if he could dedicate it to me and I teared up. It was weighing heavy on my heart. And I know hears my prs- He doesn't want me to have anything distracting me from the plan for us. He cares about even the smallest areas of our lives. He knew/knows my heart and concern for these kids, most with ADD and ADHD.
Yesterday, after my mini-cry about the dedication of the book by a precious second grader, I received another facebook message from a teacher who moved from Gaffney but is moving back home this summer. She is interested in "babysitting" my tutoring kids (her words, not mine) for a few years while we are gone. We are meeting up this weekend to talk. I am so excited and relieved!!!
Also, I had my formal interview this week. For 92 minutes I answered question after question over the phone with the HR director. And it was wonderful!!! By the end, we were both in tears and snubbing over what a wonderful thing this is and how is really in the middle of this. He said, "You know, I have been thinking the past few minutes. Your accent, I know you are Southern if not from South Carolina. And I am thinking how there is this girl from South Carolina and she and her husband are going to take their family to China to work in our schools and how can reach out all over the world and lead people places they never expect."
That was what got both of us. Just putting it to words... known all along this was the path for us.
It is truly amazing....exciting....humbling.
I can't wait to see what is going to happen next!!!
I am still hard a work, cleaning out closets, clothes, cabinets. It is a major deal- you do not realize how much "stuff" you have accumulated until you try to weed out 50-70% of it.
I am amazed at how is working through facebook though. The day I put my status as "cleaning out for sale" I had an old classmate message me wanting to buy any and all kitchen stuff. Also he wants teen type clothes for his daughter- two things I have a ton of to sell.
Then got a serious inquiry about the house...and we aren't even showing it for another 2 weeks!!!! Plus a friend had 2 people at work ask her if we were selling- they were interested too!!
Another concern I had was my tutoring students. I have done this for almost 13 years and some of them have been with me for 6-7 years. And at this time, I do not know of anyone else in Gaffney tutoring. I was really getting anxious about what would happen with them....and the kids and parents are too!!!
I have prd about it and poured my heart out. These kids I have grown very close to. I had one the other day making a book for school and he asked me if he could dedicate it to me and I teared up. It was weighing heavy on my heart. And I know hears my prs- He doesn't want me to have anything distracting me from the plan for us. He cares about even the smallest areas of our lives. He knew/knows my heart and concern for these kids, most with ADD and ADHD.
Yesterday, after my mini-cry about the dedication of the book by a precious second grader, I received another facebook message from a teacher who moved from Gaffney but is moving back home this summer. She is interested in "babysitting" my tutoring kids (her words, not mine) for a few years while we are gone. We are meeting up this weekend to talk. I am so excited and relieved!!!
Also, I had my formal interview this week. For 92 minutes I answered question after question over the phone with the HR director. And it was wonderful!!! By the end, we were both in tears and snubbing over what a wonderful thing this is and how is really in the middle of this. He said, "You know, I have been thinking the past few minutes. Your accent, I know you are Southern if not from South Carolina. And I am thinking how there is this girl from South Carolina and she and her husband are going to take their family to China to work in our schools and how can reach out all over the world and lead people places they never expect."
That was what got both of us. Just putting it to words... known all along this was the path for us.
It is truly amazing....exciting....humbling.
I can't wait to see what is going to happen next!!!
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