It's Official

Today was decision day, September 1st, if I hadn't found a job by today I would be moving to Reno. Even though I've already made this decision I just thought I'd take a minute to reflect on how I came to it.

Over the past couple years God has really opened my eyes to the work he's been doing in my life. I've seen miraculous blessings and proof of his Grace and Love for his children. He's provided for me in my distress and shown me his truth.

It became clear to me a couple weeks ago that God was closing doors for me here. The sheer absence of God's favor was proof enough for me to make the decision to move on. God has been stretching me and molding me into taking bigger steps of faith, to move away from where I'm comfortable and reach his kingdom.

I have to thank my first small group which encouraged me to step outside my comfort zone and get involved at church. Those beautiful women helped me to see how God sees me, and in part because of them I began to volunteer at Fuel, first with Pipeline then with tech. Then a few years later God called me again to step outside my comfort zone and volunteer with students. I was SO freaked out, I didn't have the best time in school I wasn't sure I could really be of any use. Now I wish I didn't have to leave them.

Being uncomfortable is where God wants us to be when we try something new, because then we're not leaning on ourselves but on him. When we are fully reliant on him, he does incredible works. The apostles didn't exactly leave of life of leisure, they were in some of the worst situations of their lives and they still leaned on God because they knew there was a reason for it and they believed they were right where God wanted them to be and when the time came for them to move on they would and go willingly.

I am being called to leave what has been my permanent comfort zone, but like when God called Abraham I'd only be in more pain if I stayed than if I went. This is a new adventure, a real chance to make a brand new start and to take all I've learned here and apply to a new life. I get to start from here, all I know, all I believe; I am blessed with the opportunity to take that with me and share it with those that may not know it yet. Thanks to all of you who have helped me along the way. This blog is to let you know how God is using me up there. I'm excited and I'm sad to leave, but I know that God has great things in store for me.