Dear Kids,
Well.... we left with our wagon full!
Something that I have felt A LOT during this process is ADMIRATION for my pioneer and pilgrim ancestors. There are so many people throughout the ages who sacrificed so much for their children to have a better life. They were also driven from their homes without any notice and had to leave with only a wagon full.
We were given lots of time to leave the house and we also left with our "21st century" wagon full. We sold everything, we gave a ton to DI, got a small storage space for the "non-negotiables" and we took the rest to the dump. We only left with what we fit in the back of the truck.
I also have a lot of empathy for Solomon. Remember the story in the Old Testament about when King Solomon was told to go and kill their enemies. But not only that, he was told by the prophet to kill all the cattle and to get rid of all the "spoils" (anything that was valuable). But after fighting them, he decided to keep the cattle and the spoils.
Then the prophet came to him and told him that God was very upset because he didn't obey and get rid of everything. After going through this process I can have a lot of empathy for Solomon. It was REALLY HARD to get rid of so much stuff. It was especially hard to put so much in the dump. BUT it's what God told us to do. We had to totally shed and get rid of everything. He told us to do it and the day that we had the first truck full we took to the dump, the spirit reminded me of the story of Solomon. It takes a lot of obedience to get rid of useful things. But God told us to give the best to DI, get rid of the rest.
We've already learned so many lessons.
-Creating space in your life allows God the space to create within YOU.
-Get rid of the worst stuff and allow it to leave your life. We just don't need so much stuff.
-Obey. Just obey the spirit. And listen to what comes to your mind with whisperings. I'm grateful that I listened to the whisperings in order to remember Solomon, because I was feeling like a horrible steward throwing so much away, but then the spirit brought that to my remembrance and it settled my mind and heart.
-All of you kids have been on edge - it is a lot of change for you what we are doing! I have had to be a lot more patient with the emotions that keep coming up. -You never know how God is going to create in your life. We planted the seed in our hearts over 10 years ago about doing something like this. We thought that we'd have to create independent wealth in order for something like this to happen (mini-retirement in another country). But then Covid-19 happened and now people are working from home all over the world. So now we can look at so many possibilities of living!
-Gabe said it really well when I asked him how he was feeling about all of this. He said, "I'm excited, scared, nervous, adventurous, happy, sad... just a whole collage of emotions." That's how we've all felt.
-I have wondered more than once what we are doing! But the Lord kept giving us confirmation after confirmation about it all.
-I had multiple times when the spirit told me exactly who needed to have something from us. God told me specifically that Dani needed our food storage. That Kindle Gardner needed the greenhouse hoops with shade cloth. He helped us to sell the van in two hours. He helped us to sell my bike right before we left town. He gave me the strength to get the house ready for inspection.
-Brent had a very specific confirmation that we were going to be traveling for a while, but then we'd come back to St. George. I had that experience when I was driving down the boulevard. I had a "flash" experience (God gives those to me as a gift) where I was in the future, driving down the boulevard and it was like I had been gone for a little while and we were back. I had that strong impression in the greenhouse that we weren't going to be harvesting that year. The Solomon experience from the spirit. EVERY NIGHT when we went to bed and we wondered if we were doing the right thing, your dad and I would look at each other and say, "We can back peddle. We can just find another place to live and do that." But every time, the spirit told us that we were doing the right thing. Over and over again.
We are definitely going to miss being by the Robbins. We lived close together and we really have grown to love it!
I think that's the hardest part of all of this... leaving our family (Robbins) and our friends. We have made AMAZING friends in St. George. So many amazing families and people. Our Homeschool Co-op has been phenomenal. We have such a great neighborhood of good kids to play and run around with. Talia especially with her social ways is going to miss her friends.
But kids, I KNOW we are going to look back on this experience and we are going to see the Hand of God all over it. We are creating in our lives all the time and God is doing some pretty amazing things for us and our family. I know that. He is teaching us so much and He is preparing us for even more.
I love you,
Your Mom
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