Howdy. I feel kinda wrung out but wanted to update my blog. :-) With Dunk out of work, we have been considering how to make ends meet around here.
After spending alot of time checking out sheet metal work online and with much talk in the last couple of years about changing his career, we wondered about changing his career to being a prison guard in Kansas! Talk about a change.
We felt God's urging to go and visit friends in Kansas and check out the possibilities we had heard. So, we packed up and headed south. The kids were nervous and eager about the possibility of moving and grandparents were calling us crazy. We had a blast of a family time and thoroughly enjoyed our stay and tour in Ellsworth. Deer loved getting to see her friend, K, again and the boys made new friends. Duke and Dessert enjoyed each having a friend to play with who was exactly their age! Daisy enjoyed renewing a friendship, cuddling their 1 yr old sweetie, and learning about the friendly town. It was definitely a trip to remember. We won't have to work too hard to remember it as Daisy had her new camera along and took 290 pictures!!! At 4 sec. per picture it takes almost 20 minutes to view them, but we hurry it along for friends. :-)
We were excited about the possibilities and considered very strongly the possibility of moving.
On Friday we met with a neutral Christian counselor to help us analyze our options. What we heard was more than we bargined for as he challenged Dunk to pursue God's vision for his life's work. Dunk has always had a heart for family cognitive style counseling (which he has pursued in an unoffical capacity with unsuspecting co-workers). We are being challenged to think outside the box and consider on our knees what the Lord has for us. We appreciate your prayers.
This next week we are planning to hold a garage sale to get rid of some valuable "junk" :-) We hope.
Thanks to those who have been holding us up in prayer. We have felt it and appreciate you.
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Well, I am friends w/your friend Teren. I am friends also with your sis-in-law, Jodi. We moved to Michigan from Minnesota 3 years ago...to keep my husbands job with the airlines (suffering from 9-11) 9 months after we moved here....he got laid off. Ok, there were no jobs in the arilne industry at all. So w/unemplyoment as our only option....we were in the same boat. I will tell you...it hasn't been an easy road...but God has been faithful. He has been there for us...every step of the way...now...my husband couldn't find a job for a long time...in any area he had expertise. He started from scratch and worked about 3 jobs and has had for the past couple years. God has truly blessed us in so many ways. I have doubted, cried, been angry...ect... the list goes on. However...beyond a shadow of a doubt we know.....God called us out of our comfy Minnestoa surroundings to Michigan...and ....we have learned, grown and passionately desired to follow Christ in ways we didn't even know existed. (Your friend Teren has been a tremendous example of Godly living.) Sometimes doing what God is promting us might seem to make no sense....all our family was in MN--granparents, brothers and sister, cousins....but.....he laid wide open the plan....and so perfectly he has led us...no matter what jobs my husband has had to work...we've never missed a house payment through my husbands hard working and dilligence....God has taken care of us. I encourage you...follow hard after God, determine to have a hard work ethic, no matter what kind of "non-qualified" jobs your husband may have to work, and mostly obey your Savior's leading.
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