So here it is! The blog you have all been waiting for... many were promised it would come, and it has now arrived!
We have gotten all moved into our new house, I (Allison) have started my new job, we've both started new classes, and the Lord has yet to show us what steps he would have us take from here... What church family we are to join; where JD will get a job (which ties into the first); if we are even supposed to be in full time ministry at this place in time, etc. Being out of ministry, we feel, would be like losing a limb. It's our heartbeat... it's who we are. But with all of the growth going on between us and individually, we are wondering if we are supposed to be on a sabbatical vacation; maybe this time he has given us to grow and be fed is something that he has purposely placed in our lives to force us to rest, relax, and restore some broken places that otherwise would be overlooked.
Take a glance at the verse above - Proverbs 16:9. It's not really our choice where we walk. Like a child holding tightly to the hand of a loving parent, we walk where He leads us, not where we may desire to go. When our walk with Him is close, where He leads and where we desire may come into line. So right now we wait. We pray. We strive to be the closest we can to Him so that we can ask Him where we are headed! We ask that you join in this prayer with us. That you would pray that we would hear His voice and follow in His footsteps. That He would reveal the path at the present is completely dark and impossible to discern.
On a more fun note, JD and I went on our first "fun" outing since the big move. We have been to work and back, school and back, Wal-Mart and back, and now we have been to the Ft. Worth Zoo and back! Apparently it is the oldest zoo in Texas (little known fact!) and we really enjoyed it. I tend to be a little obsessed with zoos. Put me in view of a non-domestic animal of some sort and I am in a zone... I can sit and stare for hours! Here are some pictures from our adventure:
JD with his flamingo friends ... it's amazing that such a beautiful bird and be SO smelly!
I am slightly obsessed with Penguins! It's a sickness :)
Wallabies! They really had a wide variety of animals ... not many zoos have Penguins & Wallabies! I was pumped!
I thought this tiger was absolutely gorgeous. For a girl who does NOT like house kitties, I sure do enjoy these big ones!
That's about it for now. Eventually I'm going to teach JD how to use this and then hopefully we can be more efficient at updating this thing :)
