Oh How He Loves Us

I felt so blessed today at church.  This was our last Sunday there and although we've only been going there for four months the pastor said goodbye to us from the pulpit and we stayed late afterwards because we were talking with people who wanted to say goodbye to us.  I just felt so loved as I received loving hugs and handshakes.  Although I am very good at moving there is a part of me that always hates it because I have to break-in to a community and have not always found it welcoming.  I am usually very good at goodbyes and moving on because I have done it so much and I just didn't expect my eyes to well up with tears as I'm writing about our church.  I know that this overwhelming feeling of gratitude I have is because I feel so blessed and loved by God.  I haven't even said goodbye yet to my ladies coffee break morning Bible study or my Esther small group Bible study! (that'll happen on Tuesday)  This is our third move this year and looking back I can just see how God has worked things out for us and for the first time in a long time I don't have low expectations for the church community in our new area.

Even though I am sad to say goodbye to people here, I am so excited to move!  At this point I just want to be in our new place and start setting up again.  I also can't wait to see our house because we only saw it once and I'm not sure if I remember all the details.  I can't stop thinking about our new place and how I'm going to decorate.  Again, I am so thankful I don't start classes till May 14!

Here's a picture of what our place currently looks like:

I have most of our packing done, and these next few days I'll be packing up the essentials and leaving on Wednesday!  Justin starts work tomorrow, and since his new job is pretty far from Simcoe, he's staying with his parents this week.  I'll join him on Wednesday because all our packing should be done by then (and I wanted to stay for the last week of Bible study).  Then we'll come back to Simcoe on Saturday, load up our   U-Haul and move into our new house!  

Because our new place is much bigger than our current one, I did something you shouldn't do right before moving and that is buy furniture!  BUT its very small and I just loved it and had to have it.  Its an antique sitting stool that I found while shopping with my sister-in-law this past weekend.  The seat cover is worn and ripping but I can cover it with some sweet new fabric.

Oh, we found someone to take over our lease!  This all happened last Tuesday, and it was such a relief to not have to show our house and not have to worry about possibly paying rent for two places!  

Since Justin is gone (he left early this evening) its just Beatrix and me and we have been having a great time hanging out.  

  I'm so glad to have her.  Otherwise I would be all by myself and probably get spooked out thinking about being all alone.  At least I have a little guard dog to raise the alarm or distract any bad guys that come around.  I think my next post will be from our new place-hooray!