Getting started...

So we have decided to take a step, a huge step in our walk of faith. To take a trip that, not so long ago, I would have considered to be crazy, even irresponsible. My place at that time seemed to be as a worker, a person who goes out and does my job to support my family. A trip like this would be a risk to our stability, our safety, our ability to make ends meet. I had a lot of pride about always being able to take care of things, not count on anyone else, I was going to make it on my own. Needless to say, my feelings about this have changed, but not because I decided to make the change, I have seen event after event happen in my life that have given me reason to trust that as long as my plans are focused on seeking God with all of my heart, we will be taken care of.
The thought of this trip was not my own, Charli has has this on her heart as long as I have known her. She has been persistent in holding on to her dream. I have had many reasons to believe that this was not the path that we should be taking. There were the couple peices of real estate that I was not able to just leave behind, my job that I needed to be at, and my fear of risking the life that we had built, even worse, risking anything when it came to my kids. All of those excuses have slowly began to disappear starting a couple of years ago. I will get into the details of our story in future posts, but for now all that needs to be said is that the excuses have been removed from our lives.
So we will be leaving for Colorado in April. And when I start to have doubts about what we are doing, all I have to do is look back to see how crazy I might be to not take this trip. I hope that you follow along with us to hear about all of the great things that brought this together, and hear what happens in the future. I have heard it several times from several people, "wait until you see what God has planned next".
As I go along, I am adding stories as they happened in the past, just to tell the story of how we got here, so the dates on the posts are not when they happened at this point.