Christmas Grace

This year, we spent our Christmas celebrating the grace God has shown us the last few weeks. Almost overnight somehow, everything has managed to work together against every odd and impossible situation. After working several (way too many) jobs in the last year, bouncing from one to another trying to provide for our needs, a job finally fell into our lap as if a gift from God. We aren’t even sure how the company got his application or where they came from, but we aren’t about to question the hands of God. One thing we are sure of: God provided even when we didn’t have the means to provide for ourselves. This job not only pays what we need to meet our financial obligations, but it also introduces doors and possibilities we couldn’t have dreamed of. Alex has discovered a joy and passion in his work He didn’t know He could have; He is excited about where this job could take him- and take us. 

Due to the nature of this job, we will be sticking around in New York for a while longer until we have more direction from God - then who knows where we may end up. He may have us stay in New York for the rest of our lives for all we know. As much as we desire to be in Tennessee, we want to be where God wants us even more. So we are settling in for the next year and then we will see where God will lead us after that. We have started an exciting search for our own place! 

After a year of living with my parents, and then living with Alex’s parents prior to that for a time, we are so ready to be on our own. As selfish as it is, we crave time with our daughter alone, and our own private space for awhile. While we are so grateful to both of our parents for their help and patience along the way, it hasn’t been an easy time. Compromise and sacrifice have to be a daily focus on the parts of both parties. It is never easy to live as an independent family under someone else's roof-neither is it to have an independent family under your own roof. But God has been exceedingly gracious to us giving us the patience and continually convicting our hearts when we grow weary and wayward. None-the-less we can’t wait to be in our own home with our own little family again. It will truly be a honeymoon phase all over again. 

Here is to more adventures! Our story is only growing and our lives just starting! Where will we go from here? What waits down this narrow road?

With an Earnest Love,

Leah