Always Learning

I feel like I am always learning so much from The Lord. I am so thankful to Him and for His patience in me.

Just a few thoughts before I go to bed.

He gives us choices. We can choose the easier road and be okay. There will be trials. There are days that it will be hard. We can choose. Or we can choose to follow Him and His ways. His ways are not our ways. They require more faith. More patience. More.

I am not sure how everything is going to work out. But I do know He is in charge. The more I pray and the more I walk by faith. The more I see His hand in our lives. Because we have asked for His hand. Because we are choosing to follow His path. I say that because it has been hard lately. I have had several people say to Drew and I something to the effect of: You will end up in North Carolina because that is where you want to go.

Truthfully if I were choosing a place to live it would be Texas. Staying in Virginia. Or moving somewhere closer to family. Why would I randomly pick North Carolina?  I don't know anyone who lives there. To me it is a place that has great beaches. But truthfully I could go to the beach from here. Or almost anywhere, we could find a beach. Where we are looking isn't that much closer to the beach. In fact it may be a little farther away from where we live now.

Yes we will be choosing North Carolina as the offer comes in. Because The Lord has opened our hearts to North Carolina. Because we prayed about it. Because it felt right. It still feels right. It even feels right to our children. Who would definitely choose to stay here.  I have a senor ready and willing to spend his last year of high school wherever the Lord wants us to go.  His one qualification is that he gets to go to high school with his sister.  

One more interesting thought and development.  North Carolina just repealed the common core.  This past week.  We were looking in South Carolina, but now we are looking in both.  As my oldest daughter just said, Heavenly Father changes laws for our family. :-)  Or, He has postponed the job offer until they passed the law so that we will look in North Carolina...  

President Monson said the following in his talk in October 2013. 

"Our Heavenly Father, who gives us so much to delight in, also knows that we learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass. We know that there are times when we will experience heartbreaking sorrow, when we will grieve, and when we may be tested to our limits. However, such difficulties allow us to change for the better, to rebuild our lives in the way our Heavenly Father teaches us, and to become something different from what we were--better than we were, more understanding than we were, more empathetic than we were, with stronger testimonies than we had before.

This should be our purpose--to persevere and endure, yes, but also to become more spiritually refined as we make our way through sunshine and sorrow. Were it not for challenges to overcome and problems to solve, we would remain much as we are, with little or no progress toward our goal of eternal life." 

As I read this, my heart and mind were opened to better understand the Lord's role in our live.  I am thankful for Him.  Thankful that He continuously teaches and leads me, as I choose to follow Him.