*promised land

when i named the blog..i never knew how perfectly it would describe the following months.
this is a journal entry from last sunday..if you can't read my writing it says "i want to have unwavering faith & complete peace"

i really asked for it. & God really gave it. of course right? we no longer have a place to call home once we're wed..this is normal for most couples right?  i mean go rent an apartment..find something else? but it is MUCH more complicated than that for us.  i'm not going to go into a great deal of detail here, but matthew & i had a pretty rad plan all worked out. & the plan that we made for ourselves failed. see what's wrong there? the plan WE made for OURSELVES. so here we are now. about to become inseparable from faith, because if we aren't faithful we'll die. (ok, it's not that serious) & at first i was terrified. because without divine intervention there is NO WAY. but the rad thing is..the God of the universe sees us..& he hears us..& he knows us..& he will provide for us. how could i ever know the true greatness of him without desperately needing to rely on him? it's so easy to have faith & peace when the seas are calm right? i may be slightly insane right now, but i'm stoked. i have no idea where God will lead us, but i know we will see our promised land & that it will be much greater with the hard work & growth this season is going to take.

& the truth is, i'd rather be rich in love & poor in money with this boy any day.

hey, we've got our love to pay the bills & we finally got longboards to keep us entertained. i think we'll make it just fine :)

(*let me just add that neither of our families would let us go house-less..both them & some of our greatest friends opened up their home to us as well..we were just banking on our plan to obviously live alone in wedded bliss)