Moving Forward

It has been a while since we have sent an update on everything!  A lot has changed in the last two weeks....finally some good changes that are moving us forward and into the next stage of life!

First of all, Brandon is now a full-time employee of Perfect Foods Bar!  He is the sales representative for all of the Orange County/LA region.  This is a great opportunity and exciting for us because he won't be working 7 days a week at 3 different jobs anymore!!  There will be some traveling involved, but he is really looking forward to this next step!  His new job begins June 1!

Also, this week I got moved to full-time status at PLNU.  I will be working 32 hours a week and still nannying some as well.   This is an answer to prayer because now I also won't be working 6-7 days a week at 3 different jobs!  How simple life will seem for us! :)

These changes mean that it's time to get our own place!!  We will probably be moving a little farther north (north county San Diego, not LA) in the next two months!  I am so excited to have our own place again. I have been decorating in my mind for months (and maybe with my Pier 1 discount too....).

Thank you all for all of the love and support these last 11 months as we have been re-settling.  Time for the next adventure!!

Blessings

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet you love us way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
But long that we'd have the faith to believe

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

2011

I can't believe it's already one month into 2011!  Brandon and I were just talking about how we still say we "just got back from Hungary" when really, it has been 7 months!!!  Life has been crazy (but then again, when isn't it, really??)  I recently got a part-time job at Point Loma Nazarene University as the department assistant in the school of education.  So far I am enjoying it!  I am still working at Pier 1 too!

Brandon is still at Wyndham and has been working at our friends' local store, Make Good, quite a bit as well.  He has been making guitar straps, bag straps, and dog collars out of ties.  So far he has only sold the guitar straps in the store, but he has sold a lot! 

We have been thinking and talking a lot about what God has in store for us.  We feel like we have just been in survival mode the last few months since returning home (and we still are!), but eventually we need to start branching out more into what God has for us, which is what we are trying to figure out right now!  Brandon spoke at the San Diego High School boys's basketball chapel the other night and he did a great job.  He is interested in doing more work like that with youth, but is trying to find the right outlet for it.

Please keep us in your prayers as we navigate what Gods' call for us is in this time.  Thinking of you all!!

Melissa and Brandon