The lull before the storm, Temporary?

Mama is not feeling well right now, but that does not stop her from getting the running done that still needs to be done. Fortunately today and tomorrow are less scheduled than she has had to deal with in the past week or so. Chase has his placement testing tomorrow but it should not take too long. If he does well, and I expect he will, he will get one day in before the Thanksgiving break.


He talked about not going for one day but I told him it would be better to get an orientation for one day than to walk in cold for his first week. After all, he has been out of school since we left New Jersey on the 25th of October and he has been lazy in doing any ongoing study even though we have carried his books through a dozen or more states. It will catch up to him in a real big hurry in a week or so.

Thursday while the movers are getting started putting our house together (What a joy!) Mama and I will have to go to the school for an interview with the principal – part of the enrollment process. I have no worries for Chase fitting in. I am a little concerned as to whether or not the principal will like us. But then, I have the advantage, I will be the one paying for his schooling. Maybe that will give me a leg up.

We are very happy with the church we are attending. I told Mama I think one of the reasons the Lord brought us here is to teach us to pray. This is a praying church and the pastor’s wife said of him one evening as she was talking to us, “You have a prayer warrior in my husband.” What a testimony for a woman to give of her husband.

She said this in reference to a statement we had made about the very real potential of relocating mid next year. Nothing is definite but there is a push against my boss to relocate the office more centrally to the area of production growth here in northern Texas. That are is the Barnett Basin which encompasses a very large geographic region through northern Texas, eastern New Mexico, most of Oklahoma and central, southern Kansas. God knows. Our responsibility is to be ready but not worried.

I suppose we can consider ourselves temporary residents in light of the expected move. But in essence, we have always seemed to be temporary residents. The only place I stayed longer than I had planned was New Jersey. All the other locations we have called home were always stepping stones along Mama’s and my wandering path as we sough to give the best to each other and to our children.

God blessed in different ways through each move and we have no real regrets. But I think right now, we are ready to alight.