Early Mornings and Allergy Medicines

So life may change by the end of the year sometime to include some very early mornings and a visit to the doctor to get some major allergy meds prescribed. Zach and I are still in constant prayer and waiting for the Lord to continue to show the next step, but we will most likely be moving down to the farm sometime by the end of the year. New factors develop each week and seem to be leading us further toward Orient, IA.

As of the time being, a job seems to be coming into works for me mostly with some hours for Zach and would cover both of us for insurance. He is waiting to hear from another job to work for the rest of the hours that would be a well paying job though not officially full time, but it would all work out very well for us to have insurance and be able to be flexible to work the farm as well.

It is still mindboggling to me as farming was one of the three professions that I was scared of marrying into, the other two being military and politics. Well, I married a farmer (at least for the next 5 years) who loves politics. Oh, well. I really don't mind a lot of the work aspects of farming, but more so the whole lifestyle and mindset change. You have to live by the livestock and land schedule. Mornings become very early, an 8-4 schedule becomes a mostly regular hours with quite a few tweaks here and there, life has to be very flexible. I don't mind working hard, but it is all so very new to me. Zach on the other hand will feel quite at home and isn't too worried about that stuff at all.

The positives that I see and that I can daydream about are
- that we would be renting a house and eventually working to build our own on the farm somewhere. A house... not an apartment.
- we will be in the country finally
- I am trying to get some chickens for farm fresh eggs and maybe a dog too
- I will get to work with Zach in a job that we will be both so very involved in and that he has a passion for
- real sunsets and sunrises and clear starry nights
- not having to drive 6 hours a month down to the farm to work on it cause we would be living down there and more would get done

We both are not anxious at all to leave Cambridge Church though. We have been at this church for 6 1/2 years and love it and the people very dearly. We have had so many opportunities to gain trust and ministries and relationships. We feel so very comfortable and at home there and yet have so much to be able to do there. We would be going to Creston Church and Zach knows just about everyone there and I know or at are familiar with a third of the families. It is a good church and the people are good people. It just will be a big adjustment.

I was hoping that I wouldn't be at Faith in maintenance for years. It isn't a bad job, but I have been here for almost 7 years working off and on and fulltime for the last 2 years. I am very ready to get away and start something new. At the same time, we really don't wanna leave our friends and our young married's class or seeing Zach's brother and wife and our little nieces and nephews every week. It is part of life to move on and it is an adventure, but oh, so hard when you have come to love somewhere and people so very much. Plus, there is a lot to have to strongly lean on the Lord for and our puny human selves want to do all ourselves and in our own power. The more we go along I am reminded "What human power?".

Please pray for us as we work toward this transition for wisdom and provision and God's leading and timing as we still don't have a moving date quite yet.