Recent events have been happening, and my wonderful husband, Luke, was blessed with an offer to teach at a school and help build their secondary curriculum and be the vision for the classical, Christian school.  This is basically his dream job: of course he loves to teach, but to really help the vision of the school, and to guide the kids along will be absolutely fantastic!  Naturally, this is going to take tons of work, tons of prayer, a lot of sacrifices, and all our perseverance.  But we aren't afraid or uncertain that this is what we should do.  God opened these doors to this school wide, while closing other school's doors quite firmly (at least for now) so that we had quite an easy choice and knew where he was leading.

So next month we are off to Oregon!  This is bittersweet because although we are excited to be moving and learning how to become part of a different community, after being so long in this wonderful community, we are going to have to leave ALL our family behind.  Literally!  They all live here!  It's been beautiful to live so near Luke's parents, my parents, all of our siblings and their little families, my aunt and uncle, their kids, and my grandparents.  Also, we are only about 7 hours away from Luke's grandparents and a bunch of his aunts and uncles and cousins.  

But Oregon isn't so far away, really, in comparison with other places on the east coast that we were considering.  God was gracious in that respect, and our families have all threatened to visit us - which delighted us!    We will need visiting and need to see our family, especially while we are getting established in a new place.

It's great how God opens doors and while you think you are making the biggest decision in your life (moving away from everyone you love) and the immensity of the whole thing has you in a grip, when suddenly, God nudges you a few steps through the door.  You look around, and realize it's the only thing and God has been making that particular move possible over the last few weeks..."Hey, that wasn't so hard!"  

That's kind of how I feel it has been for us, easy because we asked God specifically to make the decision very, very clear to us and that everything would go smoothly if we were supposed to go to Oregon.  And He did!