when you're busier than all get-out! Since my last post we welcomed my youngest back from a week in California, did an entire musical - which was difficult in many aspects, but successful - we helped with a dozen summer camps, went to AHG summer camp, sent my oldest off to Philmont and then off to upstate New York for a month, went to the AHG national conference and 15th birthday celebration in Ohio, attended the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit, went to Colorado for 9 days, went on a canoe trip, started an all-girl BSA Venture Crew and Per got and lost a job!!! Whew! Yeah, now you know why I haven't blogged!!! It's been one crazy summer!
Most recently was the job debacle. We had high hopes for this opportunity - Per was given the job, but then lost it due to not getting government clearance - for whatever mysterious reason? When Per got the e-mail it was very clear that while they were aware that he'd have questions, that they had no answers. The government just gives or denies clearance with no explanations.
We're just in the same place we have been for the last two years - trusting Him that He's up to something we're just not privvy to at this point! We know we're already different people because of what we've been walking through and He's just not finished with us yet! The same is true of Him with the job and without - He's in control and at work and our job is to trust Him and keep doing what we know to do.
Ya know - government clearance is nothing to God. If He wanted Per at GD, he'd be there. Because we thought he was there we took a vacation (on the cheap, but Per wasn't working while we were gone, so we're "paying" for it now!) which we wouldn't have taken if we didn't think he had the job. And it was a much-needed, very restorative time. Also, I wouldn't have let go of the school job. Maybe (or maybe not) that was why we went through this with GD? Sometimes God is a little like the government in this way - we have questions, but He holds on to the answers. At least for a time. And that needs to be okay.
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