God Still Speaks (Even when we don't hear)

Methinks the Lord has a message for us! We have attended 3 different churches lately and all have preached basically the same lesson. Hmmm....I'm pretty sure the Lord knew that if we only heard it once we would dismiss it as a message for someone else (surely not us), twice, call it a coincidence, three times?? Kind of hard to ignore!
The pastor this morning put it in the most plain language. Just because things aren't going the best (in our opinion) doesn't mean we aren't where God wants us to be. It's easy to encourage others that are going through a tough spot...quoting scriptures and platitudes, but when it's us....not so easy. We start to think...hmmm maybe I misunderstood God! Maybe I really wasn't supposed to take this direction. After all, if I'm in the center of God's will all will go perfectly, right? When things go wrong, I must be in the wrong, right? WRONG! It's taken me a while, but I think I'm figuring it out! (I have a particularly thick skull--thus the reason it took 3 sermons to get me thinking in the right direction).
We have been through some big changes in the last couple years (several of them WAY out of our comfort zone). But, God has a plan for all of it. He has been leading us each step of the way, and we're trusting that He'll continue to do so.


PS Tim wanted me to let you all know we will be going home for a 3 day weekend this coming weekend! We ususally don't know this far in advance, but they're going to be adding a generator to our truck and it has to be scheduled in advance (bonus for us)!