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Wow, it has been a while since I posted...  So much has transpired since February.  Our family moved to Western Canada with all the highs and lows expected with an international transfer, and I was hospitalized twice for gallbladder issues and ended up having an open cholecystectomy.  After recovering now for several weeks and nursing a minor wound "hiccup"  I am now ready to start trying to make a new routine and sense of normalcy. 
Our school schedule has also been surgically mauled indirectly with the events of late as well.  I am considering the possibility of enrolling our two girls in a Christian day-school this coming fall.  Here in Alberta, the laws governing the education of children make it possible to be funded for homeschooling, as well as provides for even Christian education to be funded, removing the one of the issues that maybe has prevented us from seriously considering a more traditional education for our girls.  I have many mixed emotions, thoughts and concerns with this new hydra.  As in the OT story of Gideon questioning the Lord, I will emblematically place the fleece and ask the Lord to show me clearly what we should do.  Just last evening in Prayer Meeting we were discussing the work of the Holy Spirit, and how He gives us direction and enlightenment about the things of God, and it encouraged me to allow myself the time to "wait on the Lord" concerning this and all matters in my life. 

I have a desire to let the Lord be our compass, if you will, in this and many other situations we are going through in our marriage and family.  The events of the past three months have given me many opportunities to wonder what God is wanting me to learn.  Satan is also the ever present power of evil and discouragement and I am quick to wonder how he is using the circumstances to distract us from the joy of the Lord that we should find in all things, good and bad.  As things settle where they may, I am finally ready and able to enter my "prayer closet" and ask Him to show me these wonderings I have been plagued with lately.


"Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."
Jeremiah 33:2-3