Tis The Season

For everything there is a season and this is evidently the summer, at least if you are in my circle of friends, to move. I moved to the western highlands of North Carolina in June. My sister bought a house in the heartland of Illinois. I have friends in St.Louis house hunting and another friend who will move to the deep south this coming Wednesday.

It is also a time when God seems to be answering prayers right and left. I had a small army of people helping with my move and I couldn't have done it half so easily had it not been for them. My sister found the perfect house in the perfect location and called our aunt, who is in real estate, for an opinion. Not only did my aunt have an opinion, she sent one of her sons to check out the house and then she paid the down payment and closing costs for her.

Now my friend Jessica is moving back to where she grew up. Mailing the little bit she absolutely needs, she is planning to start fresh when she arrives. She got so wrapped up in giving things away that she found herself without even a lamp to see with and had to borrow one back for a few days! Jessica's friends surprised her with a going away party and awed her with the generosity of their gifts. Now she has enough money to make this move much more comfortably than she ever dreamed of. Not only that, but one of the men took the things she is mailing ahead to the post office and paid the postage for her!

Keep the faith, God is good. Sometimes it is hard to see, or even harder to understand, but sometimes it is just as clear as a fresh washed window on a sunny day.