Answered Prayers!
Praise the Lord!DEREK GOT THE ATLANTA JOB!!!!!!!!!We are in shock. We don't know what to think. We both also have colds. AHHH!!!They called him yesterday while we were visiting with my mom at her house. It is a full time position, called Information Security Analyst, which means this is Derek's foot in the door to his dream career. He is unbelievably excited about it! He will start February 6th, which means we will be house hunting in ATL in the next few weeks. I am crazy excited to be really starting our newlywed lives the way we first thought we would. I am also very nervous about moving away from my friends and my parents. I'll continue job hunting too, but I'd like to wait a few weeks to let the girls settle in to their new house and yard. I don't want them to think we moved away from everything they know and then left them alone all day every day. (Yes, I know they are dogs. But one has major separation anxiety, and the other handles stress by going into adrenal shock/failure, SO...) This also means I wont be able to get baptized at Church of the Highlands the first Sunday of February because we wont be in town. We did happen to meet a lady who suggested a similar church near where we will be living, so we cant wait to check that one out.Everything happens in His timing. We have learned to be more patient and to trust more. In other news, the fast has been very interesting. Tomorrow marks one week since we started. Derek is doing fine with his, but I am struggling. I can't begin to tell you how many times I have opened my phone to check Facebook or peruse Instagram and then sighed when I realized my apps are gone and then remembered I'm fasting. It also upsets me that I continue to do that. I didn't realize how much of a habit it had become. I never even thought about it. It was like breathing. Two weeks to go, now. I think I will be much more aware of the time I spend on social media after all this. I've been reading a lot, and planning a Bullet Journal too. Now it is nap time. I'm going to try to get over this cold asap, cause then comes hOuSe HuNtInG!!!!!!! :D Love, Jess