What a Rush!

The Lord is moving and really making things fall into place, we have several BIG things happening for us and they're all so exciting!

It hasn't been hard to see though, the power in when the Lord says "yes." For the last few years, it's been a lot of resounding and forceful "no's" and patiently waiting (which I am not very good at). I don't like waiting, especially when it's something I want, but I think God was using the time to teach me and Wes quite a bit about patience and trusting fully in Him, and now we are watching in amazement as the floodgates have opened and our lives are being catapulted in new directions. It really has been, in some ways, a leap of faith. We've moved blindly on several things trusting that God was calling us to move in the direction we were heading, and He showered us with favor and more opportunities than we even had thought of. It's been a wild and crazy last few weeks, but we committed to not worrying about it all and giving it to the Lord. That is really scary! I'll admit it, it's a lot easier said than done, but I feel the Lord has been in total control in everything in my life, and I knew He could handle this better than we could, so we gave it all up to Him and have been watching in amazement at the way He works. Even our neighbor has commented that she knows He moves, but never has she seen it as strongly, or profoundly, than right now with us.

I don't want to come across wrong, I am extremely overjoyed and love telling everyone about the amazing things our God is doing in our lives, but I don't want people to miss what's really going on here. I want to point out that we just came though a few rough patches where we trusted everything to the Lord and continued to sing Him praises for the blessings we have even when things really sucked and things we really wanted to work out just didn't. But now we can see why, and we knew we'd be thankful in the long-run when God told us "no" even when we desperately wanted to hear "yes."

I don't think you really get to know our Father unless you give him your everything and draw near to him in the dark and trying times, your true colors come out, and that's when you really learn to trust Him in everything. It's so easy to see God when things are going great, but sometimes we lose Him when our enemy is trying to get in the door, and life seems upside down. That's when it's the most important to seek the Lord with all your heart and to sing praises for the blessings in your life, because it's easy to lose sight of the importance of the relationship when things are going good.

I just still can't believe the changes we have coming up! God is so good! We close on our house on the 14th of October, I just got accepted to the University of Montana Western for a bachelor's in Business (I'm a Bulldog) and have my application ready to go for the Natural Horsemanship Program, I've been given the opportunity to become part of a youth therapy ranch and possibly become partnered with them down the road, Wes is seeing things moving in his job area and we're still watching there, and I found an amazing gelding to use for the Horsemanship program and Wes has given me the all-clear to put the deposit down for him, he's perfect for the things I'm wanting to do and he has so much potential, the Lord placed him in my path and it's been crazy, too many coincidences, and to me, nothing is a coincidence, just Divine opportunities.

My head just spins when I try to wrap my mind around all the things that are happening in our lives. We've been really praying and asking for prayers to close any doors that need to be closed and to give us encouragement to go through the doors that have opened if it were what we were to do. The response has been momentous, and almost earth shaking. Things just don't happen like this, especially not for us, I wouldn't give any other praise than to our Lord Almighty. And everyone around us can see it too. I'm not sure what He's up to, but I'm glad that we get to be a part of it.

We're along for the ride now and I'll gladly give the Lord the reins of my life, it's been a beautiful ride so far, and getting better every day.