Long time

Wow, I didn't notice how long it's been since my last post until tonight. A month exactly. We aren't doing much but I so enjoy reading all of your blogs. It makes me feel like I'm down there in that part of the country instead of "up" here. How hard, I wonder, would it be to just up and move? It seems terribly hard but nothing is too hard for the Lord. How does one just "retire" before they thought they would? Is there enough money to make a major move like that? One thing I do know. The Lord keeps putting on my heart that the Word is there. We have similar places here, where I live, that we could go to but they fall short. I do pray for wisdom on this, though, that it be the Lord's will and not ours to be there. There is a big desire in my heart to be there. It's been there for a couple of years now. How hard is it to break something like that to your family? I've been away from my family for 27 years now so it's not hard for me or is it? I'm very close to my mom in law and she would be very upset by a move like this. But the question keeps coming back. Who is your mother and father. Your brothers and sisters. Life can be so complicated sometimes. We just have to listen to the Spirit and let Him guide us. He's not complicated. I don't know why I'm posting this but it weighs heavy on my heart. I'm not a country gal at all but that seems to be where I feel I will wind up. More and more I feel so at home down south there. I could never go further north from here in OKC. Originally being from Southwest Louisiana (I'm a cajun, ya know) I'm not much on cold weather. Lou, I know what you mean about being disappointed in "home". I loved my home as well. There are many things wrong with it that I can see now. We just lost a nephew from drugs last year. It was one of those drug cocktails that these kids were crossing the border from Louisiana to Texas to get. These doctors who prescribe them and the state of Texas that had no control over what drugs were going to who. The same state that I hear tell some of our kids in southern Oklahoma are crossing into for the same cocktails. It is the hurricane (Rita) that passed through my hometown three years ago and lots of people in depression because of it and the huge loss they endured. Two of my sisters lost their homes completely. Then six months later I lost my oldest brother to alcohol. Yeah, Lou, it's everywhere. : ( Drugs and alcohol. Even here in good ole Oklahoma. I have a niece and nephew who are into it and having babies they can't care for. Like you, I want my children to grow up in a place with like minded people. Though I've even seen the drugs and alcohol encompass a small town as well. I try not to be judgmental. It's sometimes hard not to be. There's a saying that what you spit up in the air lands on your own nose. I don't want that to happen to me or mine. I pray for a blessed life and a blessed life for my boys.