We always know that the Lord provides our daily bread. No matter where we go, what we do, who signs our paycheck or where we call "home", it is our heavenly Father who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, who rolls back the skies and makes the thunder roar, it is He who sustains us with every breathe that we take. He pours life and rain and blessings onto our fields, and we praise Him for each and every gift. We KNOW He will provide. It's just that, sometimes it's really nice to know HOW He will provide...
Well friends, we just found out through what avenue God will be providing for us!
In other words: EDGAR GOT A NEW JOB!!!!
It's true, and we are so thrilled and thankful! It is humbling to see His blessings and provision come, because we know that He is a gracious and generous Father who loves each and every one of His children extravagantly, and not one of us deserves a single ounce of it. But despite us and our lack of merit, He loves to love His children! We say this with deep compassion and gentleness, knowing maybe some of you are looking for work or have been out of a job for some time. Our heart's desire is to encourage your spirit, that our Father knows our needs and He promises to provide, one way or another!
And as to the specs, we will be living in DALLAS! He will be working for a company called Simpson Strong-Tie, a company located in McKinney, Texas. Tomorrow morning Edgar and I will go finalize our new "home/townhome/apartment/we aren't sure yet" home, and we are looking in the city called The Colony. It will be so sweet to live close to my parents for the first time in our entire 5 years of marriage!
And there are many other precious ways He has been providing for us recently... Last Saturday June 8, we had a large "Adoption Fundraiser Garage Sale", raising nearly $2,000!!! With this garage sale, in combination with other gifts from friends and family, we now already have 50% of all of our expenses covered! Ohhh the tears of thankfulness for that...
It was a total community event where we felt such an outpouring of love! With nearly 300 people showing up to shop, we had many friends donate goods for us to sell in our garage sale, freshly-baked cookies in the shape of Africa, colored pictures and a lemonade stand, grilled hot dogs, face painting, hours of pricing items in the heat of Texas summer and much more! We could not be MORE thankful to each and every one of you who helped us get one step closer to bringing our daughter home. :-)
Another HUGE and absolutely delicious blessing is our dearest friend Christie, who runs a cupcakes business out of her home called "Cupcakes for Freedom", is donating the month of June to help raise money for our adoption! She makes the most AMAZING cupcakes you've ever tasted, and we are so thankful for this delicious and generous offer to help us bring our daughter home from Uganda.
Another fun and sweet gift we received in this season was a free trip to San Francisco and Napa Valley! The company Edgar will be working for (as of July 1) sent him there for one of the interviews. I got to tag along and we had such a marvelous time together riding bikes across the Golden Gate bridge, drinking wine in Napa Valley and enjoying the beauty of God's creation.
Perhaps one of the biggest and sweetest blessings of all was the celebration this weekend of our 5th wedding anniversary. Yesterday, June 15th, Edgar and I said "I do" 5 years ago and what a glorious and adventurous ride these 5 years have been! My ENTIRE family and several members of Edgar's family all gathered at our home to celebrate together for the whole weekend! My heart couldn't be more thankful for time with these precious ones...
In the next blog post I will give pictures of our weekend celebration. For now, it is the eve of our vacation in Lake City, Colorado, and I need to go finish packing...!
Much love to you all.
