We are Survivors

My mind was wondering the other day and this random thought pops into my head. Almost all of the major events, good and bad, that have happened in our married life have occurred in the month of February. Most have to do with kids; our trip of a lifetime to Israel where we received our promise of children... the loss of our first pregnancy... the birth of our first child... going to Guatemala to get our second child...

The latest event however has nothing to do with children. Yesterday, Rex received the dreaded phone call that no employee wants to get. It was his notification that he was being laid off. This happened at 1:30 and he was informed that his access to everything would be shut off at 9:00. That's 7 1/2 hours to get everything from the last 4 or so years in order. Fortunately he saw this coming and had already begun this process. This morning I asked him how he was doing and he told me he felt very strange. This is the first day in his life that he hasn't either been in school or had a job.

So this is where we are now. Our prayer is that he'll have the wisdom needed to make the decisions about which job to take and hopefully those will be relatively close to this area. Above all else though, we want to go and do what the Lord would have us do because, "I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

We will make it through this. We will survive. But, can we just skip the month of February next year? :)