It's been rather of a whirlwind of a month. Between the switching coasts on adjacent weeks being a best man on the west and being an apartment hunter in the East. There is definitely no thread that ties the many things that happened in the month together besides God seeming to be in it all same God just very different places.I was with Landon as he got married in the earlier part of this month. Seeing the life in CA I chose to lay aside to pursue what God was calling Elise and I to!
It was a joy to be beside him for an extended stay. In reflection, God wanted to simply say "I love." Nothing quite like a wedding to show that. How even inspite of all the wreckage of the past marriage happens and endures.
In reflection, God wanted to simply say " hold open your heart and hands, I will take care of your friends "
All the friends that I treasure in the west. God loves them with the same abandon. He takes care of his children.
Throughout the week especially the night a few groomsman sat down with him in a newly retrofitted exposed brick cafe with wine in low lighting and told him how much he meant to all of us in the late part of the night. It was in that moment and the conversation as I walked him home the night before his wedding. I realized that God cares deeply for all of us. I do not need to fear that in pursuing what God has called me to, I need not fear lack of providence for the ones I leave behind.
In reflection, God wanted to simply say " you should have no reason to doubt my love, my child "
And on that wedding day. I saw the gifts of the past. I saw the gifts given to others for their future.
In reflection, God wanted to simply say " step into yours now! Do not fear! "
And so we drove another 1200 miles and the odometer declared it was time to leave 80108 and step into 11213 in the 7th month of 2011.
We packed again and we printed paper work we did not really need. And early that next morning we flew to NYC.
We visited apartment after apartment and found the perfect situation: the right time frame, the right price, the right commute time, in a safe area, furnished and big too!
In reflection, God wanted to simply say "I love."
And by the time we were having dinner with a married couple from the church 3 days in to our trip and we had secured the apartment. I think both of us realized that God undeniably wanted us there. For what and why? The future will tell.
And that Sunday as we were waiting for some paperwork to come in we went to the NYC Public Library and Central Park and an old church reborn to house a beautiful congregation and fell in love with the city and the community of believers we are going to join there!
We had everything finalized for the apartment by the time we were eating lunch the day of our anniversary, 1 day later and God provided the perfect couple to sublease it from us while we are not there and here in Colorado. We celebrated that night with the gifts that God gave and the knowledge this is His will for us...
In reflection, God wanted to simply say " hold open your heart and hands, I will take care of you"
As we headed back on the Subway to our hotel there was a keyboarder at the canal street subway. His music filled the watery depths of what used to be a canal where the subway track lies. I think it was in that moment in the echoing synths and steel screeching that I sat waiting with my wife besides me for the subway that I realized this is my future, a good future.
In reflection, God wanted to simply say " you should have no reason to doubt my love, my child I am even here "
And that first day of year two...we went back to Colorado to gather our things and move East the 1800 ish miles before we move in on July 9th to our new address in Brooklyn.
In reflection, God wanted to simply say " step into your future now! Do not fear! "
-J.G.
