When do you leave?

This is the most common question we are asked.  I find myself answering by saying "sometime between November and March" because this is what I hope to be true.  

The honest answer is, we have no idea.....strange I know, but I am choosing to put this into God's hands and let Him reveal the perfect time.  

As I've been journaling about our call to Tucson, the TIME theme continues.

Waiting...Timing...When... 

Usually I attempt to control time, or at least want to believe I have control of time, but God is showing me this is far from the truth in every area of my life. 

None of us really know what will happen tomorrow.  We all are waiting patiently on God and His plan to unfold in our lives.  As we wait, we can grow in fruit of the Spirit as we develop patience, self-control, and joy in all circumstances.  Or we can try to control our lives, living in a place where we are unable to fully release our lives to God's purposes.  If we continue to believe we can control the timing of our lives, we are not free to fully experience the growth He wants us to experience.

This is where I am today.  I am waiting.  I want to know when.  I want to know God's perfect timing. But God has not made this known to met yet.

Over the summer, I read through Acts.  The following passage spoke to me the first time I read it and speaks to me every time I come back to it.  It is amazing to think about the meaning of "in Him we live and move and exist."  He knows the WHEN and WHERE He will use me and you.  We are to seek God.  We are His children.  Our time is His, not ours.  

"And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face 

of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries 

of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope 

for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we 

live and move and exist...."  Acts 17:26-28 (NASB)

I pray for myself and any one else who finds themselves in this place of waiting on God that we will step back and patiently wait.  That we can allow God's pace to guide us as He leads the way.  That we will seek the Holy Spirit daily to lead us as we grow in our faith.