Crayon Ready by Deena McDaniel Positively Beautiful Blog

 Crayon Ready by Deena McDaniel Positively Beautiful Blog

 

 

Moving is always a chore. What do you keep and what do you pitch and what do you give away. We’re set to move in the next 2 years and I’m already beginning the transition. Oh, so much is collected over time. God pushes us. My heart is tender thinking how God has orchestrated my children’s homes.  “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”-Mathew 19:5

 

 

 

Our son Charley recently moved to Tampa, Florida. Cool! He’s on a path to a new career and not too far away that he can’t come home to visit. Then less than two weeks after his move, we find our son-in-law Allan has been offered a dream job in Tampa! He’ll be designing million-dollar homes in the modern architecture designs he excels at doing! Wait for it, there’s more. Rosey and Desmond are wedded on March 12 and are looking to move up north as well…Tampa? Maybe. (Abigail, kid 4 is still in the process of growing up, so her path is unknown. But she's with friends in an apartment near us now.)

 

 

 

Every step I take God laughs. We’d been planning for a year to move to the Ozarks! Yes, back to our old stomping grounds perhaps, but for sure a farm life was calling our name. WHAT? You’re sure God that we won’t be living the life in the rolling hills of Branson? 1 John 5:14- “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.”  How do you plan if the Maker of the Universe changes the path? Ah yes. We still plan, but a bit differently.

 

 

 

 

I’ve lived by Proverbs 16:9 my entire life! “You make your plans, God directs your steps.”   Our granddaughter Arlowe was excited to know that she was soon to be close to Granny. “I’m going to the beach!” She grabbed her backpack. In went two crayons. In went two Littlest Pet Shoppe toys I’d given her. In went a snack. Off to bed with her shoes on! I like her style. “Mom,” Mary laughed, “Arlowe said she wanted to keep her shoes on in bed so she’d be ready in the morning.” I like her style. When God says GO, you GO!

 

 

 

 

Moving sounds like a daunting task. We’ve lived in our beach house for over 15 years! Our house has been a treasure of fun and parties! Memories made, which we’ll hold in our hearts for a lifetime. IF these walls could talk! I know it, you too at your home.

 

 

 

 

When we came to Florida with 4 kids ages 14 to 1 ½ we’d planned to stay for 3 months in our RV. We partied in our RV for 4 years and then bought this house. Now looking into our next move it may be back to an RV life? I only wish I had Arlowe’s mentality of traveling. Travel light! As Americans, we’re a country of plenty. ALL of us have tons of stuff. The bigger the house, just means more stuff! Do we use all the stuff? Nope. I remember living in the RV and loving the fact I could clean my ENTIRE house in one day top to bottom!

 

 

 

 

Be clear, when it was time to pull the trigger to sell our farm back in Missouri, the 40 acres life was an easy choice because we had peace. God is definitely going to have to change my heart again. Maybe with most of our family in central Florida, the transition will be easier? (Abigail may have to move too!)

 

 

 

 

In times of transition, the unknown hurts my heart. God knows I hang on to things too tightly. “By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”-Proverbs 24:3-4  I need all 50 pairs of fitness leggings! And then He changes my heart at just the right time. Are there choices you need to make in life?  Maybe not as grandiose as a move, but we choose things every day! Hold my hand as we walk together in the journey of life. Constantly I ask God to make things obvious. He does. He will for you as well. I may have to bring more than two crayons and way more pairs of workout shoes than the ones on my feet!