It didn’t hit me until I was standing there with my husband staring at a 10×10 concrete box with all of our belongings in it. It’s here, it’s finally here. Moving has it’s bittersweet emotions like excitement and some even would say an unsteadiness. The stress of renting a Uhaul, hiring movers, and stepping into something brand new just leaves me in frantic panic, all the while my husband’s looking at me like “Don’t worry, it’s going to be okay.” Rewind a few months prior we had to start moving in faith.
December 2018 came and we signed our lease for another year. We had been praying and talking about what and where we were going to live as soon as we signed our lease for the second year. Literally, the month after. *rolls eyes* We realized we were ready to move because where we are living was A. too expensive for a 700 sqft apartment B. We needed more space. C. something just needed to change; we began to pray. For a whole year, we prayed “Father, we feel we are to move but where God!?” “Would you highlight where YOU are leading us, Father?”
In 2014, I started working at a Full-time job that my amazing mother-in-love helped me get. Thanks, Mom. In the middle of thinking about moving, of course, the thought of my job came up. If we were to move, I didn’t want to have to travel a whole hour to work or worse quit my job and find something else. So when my job began to offer telecommuting positions due to budget cuts, we jumped all over that. My immediate thought is God is setting it up to go wherever He is leading my husband and I. So once, I started working from home we knew it was the right time to start looking for a place to live. We only were 6 months out from our lease being up but we wanted to start moving in faith.
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We ended up coming across a community in our haste of searching. Once we saw the place, we fell in love. It checked off every single box on our prayer list. My faith skyrocketed because, in all honesty, I was praying in “hopes” of it happening, never really thought it would. When God started to bring back all the things we wanted back to memory, all I could have done at that moment was to be filled with gratitude. A sudden sense of peace overwhelmed me because it was us moving in faith that we landed the apartment. God was continuously blowing our minds.
Wait, hold up. Our apartment wouldn’t be ready for a whole month past our current lease ending. Uh, oh! Here came the stress. “Where are we going to go for 4 weeks?” “What are we going to do with all of our stuff?” While I was stressing, God was sitting back saying “I have it all under control.”
So here we are standing in front of this storage unit with our first year of marriage packed to the brim. All I’m thinking is “please let our stuff be okay”. As we locked up the storage to leave our belongings to sit for the next month; we began the drive to my husband’s grandparent’s house. Suddenly, the lyrics from Upper Room began to flutter in my heart, “in every season, I have a reason to thank you.” In previous years, I would have probably had an anxiety attack that sometimes the pressures of moving causes. I was so proud of myself. All I could do was thank God at that moment because I knew that something had changed in my mind. I no longer have to be afraid of the future, but I can be reminded that He is with us and is wanting us to keep moving in faith.
Please take a listen to the song that compliments this post. Enjoy!