the next three months

You may remember this post that I wrote at the start of our travels last summer. Or this post that I wrote about the Lord's faithfulness and provision of housing over the past few years. We are again about to jump back into some unknowns for what living arrangements will look like for our family.

We recently packed up all of our stuff from our past year in Clemson for another busy, nomadic summer. And we love it. Here's a brief overview of how we will spend the next 3 months...

-10 days in Durham for me and G/ Hilton Head for College Leadership Retreat and Staff Retreat for Chad

-5 days in Charleston with the Ferrells

-3 days in Sumter

-1 week in Myrtle Beach for the G-LINK retreat

-1 week in Durham

-3.5 weeks housesitting in Clemson (this just happened- we thought we might just be in Durham)

-6 weeks in Honduras 

-and then we will settle back in Clemson in August

Chad was recently offered a staff position at Crosspoint. We are super, super excited that we will be staying in Clemson and serving/working at Crosspoint. We are looking into housing options and would love to buy a house (woohoo! at the thought of settling). Finding a home will definitely now get more difficult as we are away from the Clemson area this summer, but I really have such a peace about it. We've been looking at houses for the past few months and nothing has felt right/been the right price/the right location/etc...

We have two options: 

1. Buy a house by August and move in/live there when we get back from Honduras 

2. Look for a place to rent (apartment leases are almost always 12 month leases in Clemson) and maybe find a house later on down the road 

Of course we would love option 1 and to find a house by August. Which seems a little crazy considering we won't really be there and then will be out of the country, but I have no reason to doubt that the Lord will provide. He has faithfully provided our housing with the Dentons and the Mitchells over the past year. And both of those were set up about a week before we were moving to Clemson. Oh how I'm learning to trust Him. To remember that he is a providing God, and a good God and the God of comfort. Schedules and planning and controlling can easily become my comfort. But those are things of this world! Those don't leave me room for trusting that the Lord is in control! I don't want to seem like I'm complaining because we are so thankful for so much (that Chad has been offered a job, that we have great community in Clemson, that we can buy a house and settle)! But it's the whole "not sure of where we will live in August" that is unsettling. Would you pray with us that the Lord would direct us? That I would trust the Lord and be content? Thanks friends!

**So I wrote that post on Wednesday as we were preparing to pack up and leave Clemson and scheduled it to post this morning. I was somewhat disappointed that we hadn't found a house yet, knowing it would be hard now that we were leaving. A new home was listed Thursday morning that was in a neighborhood we really liked. It was more square footage than a lot of what we had seen and way lower price than a lot of what we had looked at. With our car loaded down, we met our realtor there on the way out of town.. our offer was accepted on Saturday :)