Not everyone will understand what I do...

So today I thought I would update but also mention some obstacles we are facing in this Big Move we are planning.  If you are new here my husband and I are selling off or giving away most of our possessions and moving across the US, leaving behind our family of adult children and grandchildren as well as our parents and many of our siblings.  We originally wanted to look at moving out west in our later years of life for health reasons, but now we see the time is right for so many more reasons to move now...this is our process.

We have been trying to explain or decisions and actions as patiently as we can, we have been trying to be sure to include as many people as we can in discussing the process, but there have still been repeated comments along the lines of    "you're doing what??????"

It is hard to face the feeling of loss already as we think of missing our families and friends here, but we are more strongly experiencing the sensation of being compelled to do this as if we almost have no choice.  We have lived such a stressed out lifestyle for many years.  We have tried so many seasons of simplifying our activities, changing our financial positions, diving into church activities all for momentary changes that often did not have lasting effects.  We have grown and developed over the years of our marriage and family lives, we have survived some horrific events in the lives of our family as a unit that have molded and shaped us and been used to see life and growth produced rather than the death that could have come.

As they say whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger, well in many ways we as a family are a rock!

But now my husband and I come to this season where things are shifting.  The focus has been on the children or our parents or whatever else for so many years, feels like always actually. This season we are being catapulted into what seems to be a season to focus on what is to happen now with us.  We have never lived alone until recently and we still have so much of our adult children's belongings being removed from our home almost daily.  We have poured so many hard years into the lives of our families that we just gave ourselves the scraps we could to just keep it together.

This season of moving, and this being such a drastic move, we are already learning how to communicate and love each other on a totally different level.

We are trying to lovingly continue the separation but there are some pretty deep wounds coming up to the surface in some of our family members that are making the separation look like it is going to become painful and sorrowful.  It doesn't have to be this way, but some chose the way of pain rather than the way of life and we cannot help the choices others make.

So my summary for today is that there will be decisions you make in life, if you are truly making the decisions that are yours to make and owning your own responsibility, that some other people in your world may not understand or accept.  The truth is we need to do whatever we are meant to do whatever the cost.

Are the decisions you are making today 'Big'?

Are you feeling the pressure to change your course because others don't like how it feels to them, or how it affects them?

What are you going to do under this pressure?

I am going to stay calm and carry on....I must, this is where we are meant to be.  We have felt drawn into this move by circumstances, possibilities and yes- God's spirit leading us and confirming by many things that this is our next portion of our journey.

I arise today excited to see what unfolds as our preparations continue and we see the road ahead...

westward ho!