Here We Go Again

The title of my blog, "Normal Is Just A Setting On the Dryer", I think describes our life quite well. At least in my opinion it is anything but normal, not a bad thing, at least, it keeps things interesting. And we are at it again, MOVING! The summer of 2010, we moved to Columbus, GA. We moved to an apartment at Greystone Farms. In February/March 2011,we helped Matthew and Cari move to their new, first house in Lawrenceburg, KY. In July 2011 we moved from our apartment in Greystone Farms to a townhouse, at least this move was in the same apartment complex. You should have seen Ed pulling the dolly with our washer and dryer through the roads in our apartment complex, it was an interesting sight lol. It was a good move though, we are enjoying the townhouse so much better than our apartment. It feels more like a "house". Then in January 2012 Matt and Hannah moved to Texarkana, you guessed it, I made a trip to Texarkana following the moving truck to help them get moved. That was another interesting trip.....I should blog on that trip alone. Then in June 2012, Matt transferred with the company he works for to Albany, GA.....you guessed it another move but this time I stayed on this end of the trip and kept Isaiah until they got back with the moving truck then we went to Albany to help unload. Since Albany is only about an hour and a half from us I made many trips that direction to help them out. Now guess what, it is August 2012 and tomorrow, August 11, we are headed back to KY, can you guess the reason......if you guessed a move, you were RIGHT! Luke is moving to an apartment in Louisville, we are selling our home in Flaherty, and we are moving the rest of our belongings to Columbus, GA, at least now all of our things will now be in one place. God has really brought everything together with the selling of our home. We have not closed on our house yet but we should close in a couple weeks. God is always on time and He is always working. One of the ways we saw how God works things out in this move is Luke's apartment and the timing with this. Another was a garage here at Greystone Farms, where we live. Everything has been right on time, not early but right when we needed it. It is not a coincidence, it is God. You would think that after all these moves and all the times we have seen God work at just the right time we would never worry that things weren't going to work out but I still do. I get anxious and start wondering "is it going to work, what are we going to do?" Crazy because God has never let us down yet and I don't think He is going to. Even if He doesn't answer our prayers like we think He should He is still working and taking care of us. "All things work together for good, to those who love God and are called according to His purpose." He loves us and He is going to do what is best for us, he is going to take care of everything. Now wonder when the next move will be??? I am sure God already has it worked out.

Teach Your Children Well

I have been doing a summer on-line Bible study. I have been studying the book of Nehemiah. Today I finished up the book. As I read the last chapter it really hit me how much God expects us to teach our children "well". He wants us to teach our children about Him and doing what is right. Nehemiah 13:23-25 says "In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, you shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves." See God didn't want His children marrying non-Jews because He knew this would cause His children to follow false gods and turn away from Him. Then the little children would not know the truth. Nehemiah knew how important it was for the children to follow God and he became very angry when he heard the children speaking a different language and not even knowing the language of Judah. When we go to the New Testament Jesus told us that if we cause a little one to sin it would be better if a millstone was hung around our neck and thrown into the river. It seems to me that God takes what we teach our children very serious. Of course we do not have to marry within our own race anymore but we are told to not marry an unbeliever if we are a believer. But what about what we watch on t.v., what we read, do we tell those little "white" lies, do we keep the change that the cashier gave us too much of, do we say homosexuality is okay by not saying it is wrong....sometimes we make things seem okay by not saying anything, what about living with a girlfriend or boyfriend before marriage, our society seems to teach there is nothing wrong with that, it is the "norm", but the "norm" is not always right. Our children are watching us and listening to us and if we are causing them to sin by not teaching them what is right, well we know what Jesus said. Our children are our future and if we don't teach them what is right we are only one generation away for a Godless world. It seems from Nehemiah, he pulled out the parents hair and cursed them for allowing their children to disobey God's commands and from Jesus, who said it would be better to be thrown into the river with a millstone hung around our neck than to cause children to sin, we need to be teaching our children "well",(God's truth) and it is never too early to start teaching them the truths of God's Word, whether it is our own children, grandchildren, or children we have contact with let's teach them "well".