So, it has been quite a while since the last blog entry, and for that I apologize. It has been a crazy couple months, that have tried our patience and our trust. Carleigh, the kids, and I have moved back to the states after what we felt was the Lord's direction, and have just settled down in our new house just outside Denver, Colorado. As I look back at how the Lord brought us from our comfortable home in Southern California, across the ocean to England, and again back to the states to a place we had never even been, I was just thinking about God's plans, and how different they are from ours. We could have never planned all this on our own, and there isn't enough room on this page to go into all the little (and big) details the Lord worked out on our behalf, and it had me thinking about one of my favorite verses. Jeremiah 29:11-13 says:

'For I know the thoughts I have for you', declares the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart'.

God says He has a plan for each and every one of us, and He promises it is better than anything we could come up with on our own. When things seems too dificult, we need to remember these promises, and know and trust that in the big picture that only God can see, it is what is very best for us. We can take comfort in knowing that we truly serve a loving and gracious God.

above is a picture of our new home (not the literal barn, but the area :-)
Boulder County, Colorado.