Wow...we made it...10 months living in a 30 foot trailer...and we are all still alive and love each other!! I can hardly believe it has been one year since our life took a change of direction. I am even more amazed at the grace and mercy of God that has kept us through this year! He has been so amazing to us over the last year...I know, to most people it sure didn't seem like it, but to us we know that He has been with us every step of the way.
I have a friend that kept me encouraged over the last year. I remember the day Phil lost his job, and I was crying on the phone and she just kept saying everything would be okay, that God had a plan. At the moment, I did not know how everything would be okay. I did not know where our life was headed and I did not understand why it happened. Some time later, that same friend said that some day she would get to tell me "I told you so!". I told her that I sure hoped she would get to say those words. And now, she gets to say "I told you so".
I honestly feel like the last year was actually a gift to us...in a very strange way...it was a wonderful gift full of learning, receiving, growing, giving, loving and being loved. We created some of the most amazing relationships with some of the most amazing young people I have been privileged to be around. We reconnected with old friends that we had lost contact with. We learned what it was like to just be us...with very little to give except our time and love. I am not asking for this all to happen to us again, but I want to take every experience and learn from it and appreciate it for what it was.
So...now we have moved back to California and have a home that is filled with a lot of noise, chaos, messes, laughter and love...and maybe a few "I told you so(s)!!"
