2014

In order to really understand this post, you need to read this post about 2013 http://adelynns-moodring.blogspot.com/2014/09/2013.html One thing I didn't mention in the last post was about my job, which I loved and they knew I was moving. They basically gave me a promotion and told me when I moved that I could work from home after we moved. This was a huge blessing since my company did not usually allow people to work from home. Then in February of 2014 my life started to change. I went to a conference in February which stated changing me. One of the topics the speaker talked about was having a hard or soft heart. I knew my heart was hard. Like I said before I was holding it against God that we weren't able to have kids. So in this conference God was really showing me that I needed to trust Him and that He had my best interest in mind whether we ever had kids or not. Anyway in March we decided to move, even though we had not sold our house. We both had better jobs waiting for us in New Hampshire and things were not going very well at the church we were at. My biggest prayer with moving was that we would find a great church that we could conndct with. We visited Joe's church he grew up in the first week, then the second week found the church we are currently going to. We love this church and have been so blessed by the people in it. We've made some friends who were around our same age and situation. We ound out several of the couples we were beginning a friendship with were pregnant. Now I really wanted to be pregnant with them, in a similiar situation I was in after we got married within weeks of each other. Bt we had amazing peace that we were God wanted us and He would control if and when we got pregnant. A few months later we also found out that we're pregnant. This of course made us estatic. Not only were we pregnant, which we wanted for a year and nine months, but we were going to be pregnant at the same time and first time parents as many of our friends. I cannot express how much this meant to us, and to me in particular. I knew from when we got married that going through struggles with someone was going to be invaluable. The day before we find out we were pregnant we got an offer on our house that we had left in Iowa. This was a huge burden lifted off us, since we were hoping that I'm not going to work after we have kids which whould have been very difficult with 2 mortgages. So in the same week we find out we have an offer on our house, which we had previously thought we would have to only rent due to some structral issues, we also found out we were pregnant. Both things we waited over a year on and had all but given up on both of them. In the past year or two more than ever before I have learned how perfect God's timing is. If we had gotten pregnant when we wanted to, right away we might never have moved to New Hampshire. If we had gotten pregnant earlier we wouldn't be going through this with so many first time parents. If we had sold the house when I wanted to, I wouldn't be working from home which has been a huge blessing as I was pretty sick in my early pregnancy. It is so clear to me that God has, and had through all the pain and struggle, us exactly where He wants us. We are so blessed to be living in New Hampshire, about 3 miles from Joe's parents, and my borther and sister in law are moving upstairs. Earlier in our marriage I wouldn't have been able to say that was a blessing, but I have grown so much in that. But now I will have babysitters almost anytime I want one, and I'm really looking forward to devolping my relationship with my in laws deeper. I cannot even express how blessed we are right now. We had a truly horrible year last year, and God has been showing us over and over and over this year the blesings w have in store when we trust Him and stop trying to conrol everything in our lives.