Been a long time!

I took the summer off from blogging, in fact I pretty much took the summer off from everything besides sitting on the beach and playing with my friends! Lucky me!

News has leaked out that after a lot of heart wrenching decision making, we have decided to move to Florida.

The decision to move was made this winter, and then we chickened out in March, mainly because of the uncertain economy in FLorida.

Literally days after our decision not to move, my husband's job situation got really bad. When we add up the days he didn't work in the early spring it makes 6 weeks worth of NO paycheck. Ouch.

Was God trying to tell us to stop making every single decision a fiscal one? I really don't know.

You know the saying, things just fell into place? Well or us, it's more like things just fell apart. So what does that mean? What is God trying to tell us, stay and tough it out? Go and start afresh? I have no idea.
Those of you in WIW studies and close friends of mine know that God has really been working on me in the area of my marriage. I am often accused of beating myself up, but here are the facts; I was in a difficult marriage, that failed, this left me with an attitude, in fact it left me a bitter and unforgiving woman, thankfully God changed my heart, and I am free of those things, but I admit that a slight "attitude" remains. ;-)

Another fact is that I was a single mom of 2 little girls for a few years, which, for all practical purposes made me the head of my own household.

When I married my sweet husband, I never truly turned over that role to him. Honestly, I think he was okay with it too. He was aware that i was deeply devoted to my girls, and respected my decisions regarding how they were raised. And when we had a son, he was just naturally raised the same way.

Over the years I admit to getting my way...every single time. The creed in our house is....if the momma ain't happy...you know the rest!

"Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church," Ephesians 5:22-23a

So what does that mean exactly? I don't know, but I do know I was not living up to those standards.
So God started just working on me, and as I fought against my natural bossy attitude, I felt like God was melting me down, little by little.

And just as I melted and gave in to the idea of not always being in control in our household, my husband announced his desire to move to Florida to be closer to his mom.

This story is getting much too long, so to shorten it up, I will just say, I am excited and very afraid of moving to FLorida. I am FROM here. All of you FROM here know just what that means. But the timing of God planting that seed in me to "submit" to my husband the way He commands and my husband deciding it was time to move is not lost on me.

So in faith I head south to a new life, new jobs, new schools, new neighborhood, new church family.

To my WIW sisters, I am praying that someone who loves Jesus will step up to the plate and lead my dear Women in The Word. I love you all! I'll try to keep blogging as a way to stay in touch, so please comment often!