All the Possibilities . . .

God holds so much in store for our little family in the near future! It's incredible, and thankfully, not overwhelming (at least, not yet).

We are expecting a girl the end of August. Yay! We are both so excited, and I am especially blessed to see and hear how excited my husband is to have a daughter. I thought perhaps he wanted another boy, but he was just as eager as I for a girl, perhaps more so!

She already has her own personality. She is far more active then her older brother was in utero, a lot more steady motion and kicks during the day, and is growing steadily stronger.

About 3 months after she is born we will most likely be moving into a bigger town, just a block up from our church! We'll be so much closer to all the places and stores we go to, which will be so helpful. And most of our friends live in that town, too, so that makes things slightly more accessible for us to spend time with them or invite them over.

The house we are thinking of renting is owned by some church friends. It's an old Victorian style home, with a lovely design and great wood floors...I just love the sound of old, big, Victorian houses. There's a lot of work to be done in it first, especially the plumbing which leaked from the upstairs and drove our friends out of that house to their current house! But, to help out our friends to rent or sell it, and to help us out with a good home, our church is going to finance all of the repairs and remodeling!

That news floored me. I almost cried (and I still wish I had!) when I realized that our tiny church of roughly 40 members were going to take care of us and our friends in one fell swoop. On top of that, there's another family in our church who have fixed up a number of homes and sold them, and are very knowledgeable in construction. They will be doing the work, and so they will also be blessed by this project. I don't know of many congregations that would just offer to do this without someone coming and asking for help. We didn't ask anyone, we were all set to find our own rental and we thought we had to move in less than a month. I was strangely not bothered by that, but I was incredibly moved when I learned the church didn't want us to have to move and also had a wonderful back-up plan for us.

God certainly is good, and over and over He proves to me that His mercy endures forever.