Christmas Blessings....

Every year at Christmas we think about the year gone by and what has happened this year. Well this year, I'm overwhelmed. I don't even know where to start with the blessings.

The wonderful cabin that we were loaned!! Thank goodness for wonderful people!!

After 4 months of being "homeless" and living in a cabin with electricity ran by a generator (which isn't very fun to start on a cold cold fall morning) and no running water, we finally received an offer on our house in NB, and here we are 2 months later, and will finally be closing that chapter of our lives in New Brunswick. We closed the house in Labrador City on October 21st but God wasn't finished with our patience yet, as we still lived humbly for over a month with no furniture, and very little supplies. We sat on our living room floor and ate our first meal in our house, realizing how warm it was. Our dogs laid in the corner seeming a little more relaxed as well as the floor was much warmer in this house then in our little cabin.

Our first snowfall in the cabin sometime in October. This was our road "home" for 4 months

Our water source for 4 months!

As they ran up and down the hallway and around the house in several directions...you could see the excitement over them, just as much as us. We knew they were settling in again just as much as we were.

Then the feeling of washing our dishes with warm running water, and not to mention that feeling of stepping into that shower every morning...I can't even describe the sense of relief that we experienced.

The week before we closed on our house in Labrador City, it didn't even look like it should or would happen. The lawyer was calling me constantly and saying they needed the papers and that there was no way we would be able to close on that date. And the owners of the house we were purchasing had had enough waiting..they needed to close that date or they were going to put it back on the market...and Ty and I knew the moment it was put back on the housing market it would be sold! No doubt...

As people told us to have faith, and continue praying, it was getting so exhausting..and I was on the verge of major meltdown. I then took comfort in the fact that there was a job position in St.John's, Newfoundland, and perhaps I should apply there, and we could just get a transfer with my position here...but I knew that although St.John's would be lovely and big city, and not as isolated, I felt that God wanted us here, but that there was no way we could live here without a house.

So at the very last possible moment..and I mean very last possible moment...it all came through...11:59...again!!! :) That is a blessing and a sense of relief that I don't think I will ever experience quite to that degree again. 

Now here we are..a couple days away from closing the chapter of our lives in NB. And although we will return in one week, and travel that long windy empty road again to come celebrate Christmas with our   family and friends, I will never see that road the same again.

When we first journeyed that road, it was fear, it was anxiety of the unknown, it was a calling, it was a desire to live out our dreams. Now as we go and come probably many times in the future down and up that road it will be home, and comfort, and realization of blessings, and opportunity.

Lyric anticipating the movers!!!

The day our furniture and belongings arrived..what a relief!! We could begin to call this HOME

Closing Day: October 21st

Before and After....sleeping in the corner with relief, but still no bed..finally got his bed and his baby all in one place. It's been a long journey for them...we could tell the difference....

  One of the first snowfalls in our new home..October 2011

Our front yard of the cabin..miss waking up to that beauty every morning..I will say that!!

Labrador City View..snow covered mountain tops..Beauty!!!

I want to continue to share our journey and to share our story because I know there are others that are scared to travel their LONG road..to wherever it might lead. I think that by continuing to share our simple story it may inspire even one person to get up and travel that road that you have been avoiding for a long time, cause somewhere, no matter how bumpy it might be to get there, there is beauty and there is hope at the end of that road.....

Merry Christmas! and remember this New year to count all your blessings....