Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Where has all the time gone?



It has been two years today since I graduated college, I can't believe it has already been that long!  A lot has happened in my life in these two years.  I graduated and moved back to North Carolina where I worked and lived with my parents, which I am so grateful for now.  That was the last time I got to spend a lot of time with my daddy, who has since past away.  I will always cherish those months I got to be with him.  I try to tell people to spend time with your family and don't take them for granted because you never know when they will be taken from you.  When summer was coming to a close in 2006, my family went to the beach and Travis came a long, and on August 1st, 2006 he asked me to marry him on the beach!  During the time of our engagement, Travis lived in Alabama.  While there, he was offered to come interview for a job in Gillette, WY.  We went to Wyoming in September to interview and decided this was the place for us.  Travis moved to Wyoming in November and began to work at High Plains Community Church.  He returned to NC on Christmas Eve to stay until we got married.  By January 20, 2007, we were married, another big day for me that I will never forget.  We went on our honeymoon to Savannah, GA for only a few days, and then headed back to NC to pack a U-Haul truck to move across the country to Gillette, WY!  By January 30th, just 10 days after we were married we were in a totally different place, but we knew that Gillette was where God had called us to go.  Yes it was hard to leave my family, but God has blessed us with a wonderful church family, and He has provided for us in tremendous ways.  I have been blessed with some great friends here and I know that that is God's doing also.  
We got to go to NC for vacation this past Summer and during that time we went to the beach yet again with my family.  This was the last trip that we would take as a whole family, and  I am so glad that we got to go home.  This was the last time I would get to be with my daddy while he was still alive and I will never forget that trip!
We had to go back to NC in November for my daddy's funeral.  It was so very sad, it was the first time my heart had truly been broken.  But God is so good and all those years of praying for my daddy's salvation had paid off and in the end I know that he was right with God and that today he is in Heaven with Him!  He is so blessed!
Now it is already May 6th, two years later, I never knew that my life would take all of these turns, but in all of it I see God's perfect will and I am so glad that I get to be a part of it!

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