Walk by Faith

So many things are changing in my and Matt's life rapidly. The obvious being that we are now parents to our beautiful daughter, Gwendolyn. Second, I am a stay at home mom which is such a huge change for me. I have been working since I was 15 years old and now, 11 years later, I no longer work, I have the pleasure of raising our daughter. The most recent change that is happening on our lives, which has made the first 2 even more scary, is that Matt is resigning from Nielsen and will be going over to Westcoast Awnings full time, the business that he and his brother, Rick, purchased together a year ago.

The thought of Matt going over there full time to run the business with Rick has been scary to me from the very beginning. Having an income to support our family that solely depends on how the business is doing now that we have a family and I am no longer working is scary. Finding private insurance that isn't going to cost us an arm and a leg. I did not want an absent husband or father to our children because he would be working so much as a business owner.

Even though they have owned the business for a year, I was pretty set on Matt not going over there at all, basically out of my own selfishness and fears. I never prayed about it and I definitely didn't have faith that God was going to take care of us in this situation. Matt's job situation at Nielsen was getting very stressful and Matt was presented with the opportunity from his brother, who seemed desperate to have him come over to Westcoast. Matt asked me to think about it and so I decided that I should probably pray about it. That night Matt and I talked about it and we both felt as though God was telling us to have faith and to walk with Him through this journey and everything will be good. So, Matt has put in his notice at work and will slowly be phasing himself out of Nielsen and over to Westcoast full time.

God continues to remind me, it seems like in a whole lot of situations through out the past year, that if I just Walk by Faith and trust completely in Him, His will will prevail. It is crazy how many times I "forget" to trust in him and try to do it all on my own. Then I get smacked in the face by the situation and realize that He is in control, not me! So, Pray for us as we trust in God and follow the path we feel He is leading us to follow. God is Good!