Changes

     To my dear friends and family that read this blog, this isn't a post I particularly wanted to write, but as it is what God has ordained in our lives at this time, I feel the need to write it down.  God is working in our lives, and I'm sure someday this will be an amazing story to tell.  Right now in the middle of it, I don't know where it is going, or how it will turn out other than to say that God is working all this for our good, and He will be faithful to complete the good work he started in me so long ago.  This is all part of that story.
     Friday, Ron was asked to lunch by the owners of his company.  They kept their explanation brief.  He was being replaced.  They knew he had been pursuing a new career path, after a conversation with a background investigator.  It's all a part of the hiring process.  They decided to replace him on their terms rather than waiting until he decided it was time to leave.  So Saturday, he returned the work truck, keys, and phone and said good bye to coworkers he's labored beside these last twelve years.  I am saddened by the way this chapter has ended, but not that it has ended.  I am confident that God will provide.  Ron has been looking for a new job for a long time.  I expect that at the right time a door will open to him.  In the meantime, we are entirely dependent on his grace (as if there were ever really a moment when we weren't).  We just don't always think of how dependent we actually are.  Thankfully God's tender mercy toward us and His Faithfulness hasn't changed. 
     We know he is working for our good, and we can trust in that outcome no matter how it looks from here.  We don't know where God will take us from here.  We have lived check to check for some time, and now there are no more checks coming in.  There is an urgency in our prayers that God would provide, so I am asking you dear readers to join me in that prayer.  Please pray also for Ron and I that we would continually focus on God throughout this time, that we would not be overcome by fear and worry, but continually praise the God who provides.  I really am not afraid and that can only be attributed to God and the strength and peace He gives.  I know if I were left to myself I'd be a mess, so I'm thankful He has given me that peace to rest in His goodness.  I know it'll be okay.  I don't know how that will look, but God willing the conclusion to this story will be one that brings praise to our God!