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I'm going to speed this up. I mean, it's JULY and I'm writing about things that happened MONTHS ago. That's no fun for you and it's just. silly. Sillyness.

This is basically how our Spring ended:

Tommy didn't hear back from Vero Beach for AWHILE. Long enough for it to get stressful. So, we tried to balance placing all our trust in our Lord, and knowing that there are many Christians suffering in our country with no jobs. We know that He wants what is best for us, and we discusssed how we were learning to be humble and patient. Tommy even went to an on-site interview in Philadelphia because he thought that VB wasn't going to pan out. (Pan Out? Who decided that was a logical saying?? I will look that up after I write all this for ya....)

I think by this point we just decided to not think about it and just to WAIT. "Wait on the Lord, be strong, and of good courage." So, we bought t-shirts to support those who were hit by tornados in Alabama, and sent gift cards to Lowe's with the Christian radio station we listened to. And waited. And prayed. I started writing my prayers. I needed to be able to look back in years to come and see what I needed, what I had actually asked for, and what God had done.

And finally. Tommy was called. From Vero Beach. They offered him a better job with a higher pay grade than he interviewed for. He accepted almost immediately. Talk about rejoicing! I was doing an observation at the time and kept getting texts of joy from my mom, his mom, our friends from church, etc, etc. I'm sure the poor lady thought I was a terrible person- I kept looking at my phone and grinning, then trying to hide the smile.

I don't want you to think that if Tommy hadn't gotten the job, we would have been angry at God. Our prayers were never "please give us this job." We only asked that He would give us the grace to accept what He planned for us, to desire what He wanted for us, to be patient and to trust. We didn't know what would be best for us, and we knew He did.

So, after seeing Him work, all we had to do was celebrate. And then celebrate again- for our One Year Anniversary!!