a day at the Lake

So the family I help out has a lake house close to an hour from my home and they asked if I would be able to come down for the day! So here I am sitting outside looking out to the water and enjoying the breeze! and thinking.. thinking about all that has gone on since January! On New years day.. Ross and I had such different plans from where we are right now and its amazing to see how much God has intervened and showed us that "His way is unstoppable.." How true that is! In January Ross and i finally told the family that we are planning on putting our house on the market so we can move to Missoula, Montana.. Something Ross and I have been talking about and thinking about since September but just kept it to ourselves. Rodney Trinidad, a missionary friend of ours, gets a hold of me asking if I would be interested in coming to Australia for the month of October to speak at two different girl retreats..! Woo! I thought for sure that this year was going to be full of adventure and I started to plan everything out!.. BUT Then God steps in and says, I am happy to see your willingness but I have something else for the Shoe Family.. So on Valentines day I take a pregnancy test and find out.. yes, we are pregnant and the due date is sometime in October.. Scared.. confused and angry I didn't understand why we had to get pregnant right then.. especially since this gets in the way of Australia! BUT God was doing lots of work and lots of teaching.. So now, 6 months pregnant and knowing I have a little buckaroo growing inside me so so much has changed.. I sit out here and think of all that God has planned and all the plans that are already layed out but have not happened yet.. How will I handle them.. Scared, confused, angry, OR would I trust my God and King.. KNOWING that He knows whats best.. He is so so good to me! I can't get over His goodness .. His grace.. So now in the month of July I realized that SO much can change between now and the following year.. What is God's plan for this family? Well whatever it is I so hope to hold fast to His promises and to TRUST Him.!