(Top photo: New Place in Escondido. Middle photo: Last Place in Oceanside. Bottom photo: First Place in Escondido.)
Through a set of circumstances that were completely unexpected, I am somewhat homeless this semester. At the beginning of this week I moved into my 3rd home and started the all-too-familiar process of settling in. Again. This time I have a teeny tiny room above a storage building at my friend's house. My own space! Now that gets me excited! The main house is just a hop, skip and jump away from my little "tree house" under the pines, which is good because I don't have my own restroom!
I have windows on all four sides, a front patio, a back deck, a ceiling fan, and the protection of Suki the Akita (strangers should be careful, she's quite territorial. I bribe her with a spoonful of my coffee, but others might not win her heart nearly so easily!).
It's been interesting to see how this all plays out. I remember being so devastated about this whole mess a couple months back. All my careful planning just fell through with a completeness that broke my heart and sent me into an emotional slump. Things got hard. I got sad. But even though I experienced these rough patches God hadn't deserted me. He allows me to go through the tough seasons to refine me, to build my character, to grow me up into more of the woman God desires me to be. And I'm okay with that.
Next month I have another house set up to move into, once again, God has provided! I sincerely hope this trend of moving once a month will be coming to an end soon. But I'm not promised that, only that God will be with me! What can beat that?
