Sooooo it's been six months!! We planned on updating multiple times, but maintaining a blog is apparently rather difficult, especially when nothing very meaningful seems to happen. On my end, this whole experience has often seemed like just passing time until I can move out to Mississippi. I have continuously had to come back and ask God to help me focus on the time and place I am currently in, because I know that He hasn't forgotten about me during this "in between" period.
Most of my time has really been taken up with work, as well as the blessing of being able to spend time with my family, roommates, and friends. I have tried to plan possible things for a wedding, but with no set date (due to military uncertainty) it is really hard to do! As a planner, that has been one of the hardest things for me. I have, practically without exception, had to pare away every thing that I thought I might want to have for a wedding. It has been like every little thing that I've wanted to hold on to (location, flowers, invitations, save the dates, food, etc) has been taken away from me. All I have is a pair of shiny shoes, a dress in the making (thanks Mackenzie! :)), a groom, and God. We have had to once again come back to the point of saying, "This wedding is yours, God. We want it to be what You want, and maybe what You want isn't what a typical wedding looks like."
The only things that I know for sure is that, God willing, Wesley will be able to come visit once before the summer. And that I (at some point) will be heading out to join him in Mississippi. How, and exactly when, I don't know. Sometimes I think about earlier times when I would pray that God would grow me to be more like Him, and I don't want to begrudge anything He needs to use to do so. It's really hard sometimes, but each day is one day closer to whatever is coming, and God already knows what that looks like. :)
