Old friends....

It's nice to have old friends track you down... always fun to catch up.

Speaking of catching up...

Job is going well. My raise finally came through... all told, it was a $14,000 raise from my last position. Not too shabby. :) I was catching up with an old college friend and this will sum up our move over the last few months:

We purchased a house in February not having the finances in place as my raise didn't get finalized until 2 weeks ago... there were times where we were $900.00 short for our Mortgage payment and God provided every.single.time... not that I doubted. Mixed in there were car repairs and what not... however, we have were never short. A few months ago, we had a choice between paying $600.00 to church or paying our mortgage, and we chose to pay our tithe knowing that God is faithful... and he has been. It has been a wild ride but it has been fun depending on the Lord... in the past, I would have been really anxious; but there has been a peace in resting in the Lord that I have not felt before. The job has been full of challenges and exciting new opportunities. I am heading to China for 3 weeks in November, so that should be exciting as well.

Anyway, Sydney and I both feel we are where the Lord wants us for now. ;) AND... the raise came through, so we can now pay most of our mortgage... not quite there,but then, what fun would that be? lol.