Cliff Jumping 101

A perfect picture to describe our day!  ---photo by bzo, wikimedia

There are times when we are prompted to take a leap of faith.  That prompting may come through counsel, Bible study, any variety of means.  Long ago that started for us.  Our CTEN family advised us that about 2 months before leaving for the field, jobs should be left and full time support raising taken up.  That was only one area of prompting that I can recall...it is something that has been on our minds for a while.  That’s a scary thing though, leaving your job and not knowing how you can provide if enough monthly support isn’t coming in.    So we did nothing.  (Well, we did lots of things, it’s just that Ken didn’t leave his full time job.)

We learned today, that sometimes when you are standing at the edge of that cliff, wondering what to do - God pushes you over the edge and forces you to take the leap.  (Which I suppose is not really leaping ourselves...hmmm)  That happened for us today.  We no longer have to be concerned about when Kenneth will give his notice, or how we will get the time off to visit Canada.  God took care of that for us, and Ken’s company laid him off today.  Now we will be able to work on finishing this part of our race together - how much better that will be!

We feel a little strange, being thankful that he has “no job.”  It seems weird in this economy to be happy to be out of work.  But we are.  We know that God’s hand is in this, and that He will provide for our every need.  We know that He is able to bring in the rest of our monthly support, and we thank him for that.

Please be in prayer for our housing situation.  We now have no choice but to find renters, or sell the house by June 1.  Please pray that God’s hand will be present in this task as well.