Monday night we had a meeting with one of the Pastors at Northside about membership. It was nice to get to know him and fill him in on the past year that we've had (we gave him the abbreviated version). We are really excited to transfer our membership to this church and he made us feel certain that this was what we needed to do for our family. So, next Sunday during the 10:00 service we will be going forward and making it official. It will be nice to know that we have a church home again. After the service, we are going to attend, what they call, Connection Points. It's a way to get to know people and get information on Small Groups that are available. They have a new one starting here in Wadsworth, we are really hoping that it will be a good fit for us, because we really miss that intimate small group atmosphere... building relationships and growing spiritually. We are just really ready to meet some new people here in Wadsworth and finally have some "friends". When we left Highpoint, we didn't realize that some people we considered "friends", weren't really. We have had such a roller coaster year and drifting apart from friends was one of the hardest things that happened to us, because we didn't have anyone to turn to anymore, but each other. It's just a really bittersweet time right now. I HATE change and we have had NOTHING but change in the past year, on the other hand, i'm learning that change can be good and it's actually kind of exciting. I've learned to "fly by the seat of my pants" more, which has been hard, because i'm a planner and where that can be good a good thing, it wasn't always in my case because i let it get the best of me. I'm just ready to move on... put it in the past, leave the bitterness behind and really truly know and believe in my heart that God has something amazing in store for the Sage family. I think we are finally coming out of this slump we've been in taking charge of the important things in our lives. And just to know that we have such an amazing God that allows us to be so imperfect and make such stupid mistakes, but He knows what He is doing and I can't believe that even for a second i doubted that. Pastor Robin at Northside said on Sunday when people are going through a hard time, you will often hear others tell them "God won't give you more than you can handle" but, is that necessarily true? He said that he believes God Does give us more than we think we can handle because He wants us to reach out to him in those times and lean on Him. If God didn't give us more than we could handle, then why would we ever need him. That really hit home for me, because I've also believed that statement to be true, but Pastor Robin was so right, and for us specifically we have had a lot handed to us and at times we were completely overwhelmed with doubt and fear and when we tried to proceed on the path we wanted to go down, it was all wrong. When we finally put our hands up and said "God, this is all yours, I can't handle this on my own!" Then things finally started to make sense. Does this mean that we have nothing but good times ahead, NO, absolutely not, but atleast I know that I'm in the right hands.
I honestly don't know how this post turned into this, but it feels good to get it off my chest!
Happy Hump Day!
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