one month and counting

It is hard to believe that we will be leaving our West Plains address in a little less than one month. Before I get to much written, I wanted to explain why I have not posted in several months. I was waiting to find out more information. I have been waiting for the Willow house to sell and for R.T. to get his Australian medical license. Neither of which has happened. We do feel God's direction in this trip and are looking forward to how God is going to solve these "minor" details. By the way, because R.T. does not have a medical license, that means that he does not officially have a job, which means that we do not have a work visa and also means that we cannot book our plane tickets----all just minor details. We have been assured that all those "minor" details will be taken care of. Thankfully, the Australian gov't is going to get our tickets for us, so we do not have the added stress of making reservations.
I must say that God is good and gives us just what we need. In my devotions, I have been reading in Phil. and this morning, I read Phil 4. It is comforting to know that if I think about what is right, lovely and pure that God will provide the peace that I need. It is amazing to feel His peace , when every earthly thing (activity) is stressful around us. Recently, my dad compared us to Abraham - he knew that he was going to be the father of many nations, but at the time he was childless and advanced in age( we do not feel worthy to be compared, but it does help us to know that we are not the only ones. We know what the end result is, but we do not know how it is going to be accomplished)
Sooo, how do we know that this is still God's will......This summer our house was under contract - for 6 weeks. We knew that we had to get visa's, plane tickets , medical insurance for my parents. We also had to get all the homeschooling material for the kids. All of these things fell into place. Yes, my parents have all the things that we do not have :-) Unfortunately, the sale of our house fell through the day before closing. It was very tempting to take that as a sign from God that maybe we should not go, but with much prayer and counsel from friends, we had to look at the big picture. God has opened all the doors, except the house. We have come to the conclusion that we need to go and trust God to work out the financial details. There is something comforting about being so completely powerless, that you have no other choice but to rest in the palm of Gods hand.
Our plans, we fly from St Louis to San Diego on Tues, the 16th. R.T. has a conf. there until Sunday. We will leave on Sunday and drive to our relatives house and we will stay there until the 29th. We will leave around 11 p.m. on the 29th and will arrive Brisbane on tues. R.T. does not start his job until Monday the 6th. We are unsure what we are going to do for those days in between. By the way, we do have a house and a car waiting for us in Australia.
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