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Real talk about self employment and its role in a family.
- Family update:
●Vienna is actually starting to talk
●Piper has decided that she is going to go to school
The baby is not making Sarah sick as much
●Josh and Sarah are watching the Gordon Sr household
- Other family…
Main topic – Devastated’ is probably too strong a word for what I’m feeling.
See, for the past month, Sarah and I have been on the hunt for a new place to for our family live.
Last week, the uneventful, boring search took a sharp upward turn when we found a superbly charming little townhouse with 90% of the things on our wish list! Things moved quickly from there. We checked the place out, met with the owners (whom we clicked with really well), submitted the application, and waited with baited breath.
For 1 week.
Then, this hit my inbox with a ‘ding’:
Craaaap! In that moment, I realized that I’d actually pinned a lot on this place. I was surprised with how sharply that news hurt. Now, I feel disappointed. Dejected. Discouraged. I’m also facing a decision. I can succumb to disappointment, which would undoubtedly sour into self-pity, or continue to hope. Hope is a crucial piece of the NCF lifestyle.
Hope is the bedrock beneath our feet. Hope drives us forward As hope erodes, so does our ability to persevere despite opposition. When we’ve lost hope, we’ve lost. Without hope, we abandon growth in favour of the comfortable, the compliant.
“Hope is the best of things…” (Shawshank Redemption)
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” (Albert Einstein)
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” (Helen Keller)
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” (Emily Dickinson)
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” (iGeorge Iles)
How hopeful are you?
What gives your hope its strength?
Now we have very high hopes for another place that is infinitely better than the last possibility.
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Good show and very timely for me. The last two years have been extremely difficulty for my family but through everything, we have never lost hope. I have known too many people who lost hope and that always ends bad. It is encouraging to be be reminded that “my hope is in the Lord”.
The Arron Shust song says it best: ” my hope is in you Lord, all the day long, I won’t be shaken by drought or by storm”
P.S. I’m a fan of anyone that quotes Red from Shawshank Redemption.
@Westsox
“My hope is in the Lord.”
It’s so simple and profound, eh? I sometimes forget that simple does NOT mean ‘easy’… It’s one thing to say your hope is in God, it’s an entirely new thing to stop striving, to stop freaking out… but it’s a rich, deep, meaningful tension, and it’s drawing me closer and closer to God’s heart.
I can only hope to a certain point until I feel I’m setting myself up for a fall. I try really hard to let my hope evolve into faith. Then, and only then, can I feel comfortable and accepting knowing that His will be done.
I guess that it all comes down to answering the question ‘what is my hope placed in?’
I cling tight to Jeremiah 29:11-13:
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
I cling SO tight to that.
- Josh
Josh,
I’m getting caught up on this podcast and I listened to it today. I think that your attitude is great despite the disappointments revolving around your home search.
We had a related situation when we were looking for our current house, which is now about 7 years ago. My wife and I were being toted around South St. Louis by our real estate agent. We wanted to see one home in particular. When we got there, the agent had trouble opening up the lockbox and was fiddling with it for a minute or two. My wife uttered a quick prayer to St. Joseph and *poof* out pops the key!
This home was on the market for 6 months. It was in move-in condition and was a reasonable price; it should’ve been sold months prior to us seeing it. God wanted us to have it since it was waiting for us and is still our home today.
You will have some other door(s) open for you and your growing family.
Ite ad Joseph,
Marc