Heading Back to Reality

Joe gets on a plane early this morning to head back "home". Duty calls, or in his case CDW does and tomorrow will be his first day back in the office in a month. Blake and I will join him later this week. It's a strange feeling to be caught in both worlds.
Florida feels like home, everyone we love is here, and we never really want to leave. In Illinois we have a condo, Joe's work, and a much quieter and isolated life. Seeing Blake love it here this much only intensifies our desire to make Florida home again. The prospect of leaving everything and starting over is much more exciting than scary or overwhelming. We have seen doors open with our adoption finalizing sooner than later, a branch of CDW opening in Tampa, and a longing to be part of not only Lakeside Community Chapel, but near to those we love and miss on a daily basis.

We gave it a shot, six years in the Northwest Chicago suburbs, but when no family is nearby and children make their way into the picture suddenly a new view makes its way into the decision process.  Okay, we both decide it's time to make a change and stop the talk and geer into action. This requires a job transfer for Joe, or figuring out if he can continue with his current job in Florida, short selling our place, packing up everything, and all the ends & odds that have to be done on top of our adoption responsibilities.

Please pray for us as we begin this endeavor, it's an especially scary thought for Joe who has never done a move like this and it's easy for panic to set in. Pray the doors would open with a job, our place would sell, and step by step it would be clear this isn't our plan but instead God is opening up opportunities so we can live here. My hope all these years were to end up in Florida, but that doesn't mean I want to come charging through if it's not where we belong in God's will for our lives.

Nomatter what - may I be content! "Let not our longing slay our appetite for living"