Well, hello there!

Sorry guys, it has been quite a long time. For the past 2.5 months I have not had internet access at my apartment. Well the husband and I finally broke down and got internet!

Anyway, since I've gotten married since I last blogged, I felt like the blog needed a new name that included both of us because marriage is all about partnership. The title for our blog comes from a song that I've heard a lot over the past several months by Andrew Peterson that I feel really applies to us and sums up our life right now.

I was nineteen, you were twenty-one

The year we got engaged
Everyone said we were much too young
But we did it anyway

We bought our rings for forty each
From a pawn shop down the road
We made our vows and took the leap
Now fifteen years ago

We went dancing in the minefields
We went sailing in the storm
And it was harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for

"I do" are the two most famous last words
The beginning of the end
But to lose your life for another I've heard
Is a good place to begin
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/andrew_peterson/dancing_in_the_minefields.html ]
'Cause the only way to find your life
Is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price
For the life that we have found

And we're dancing in the minefields
We're sailing in the storm
This is harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for

So when I lose my way, find me
When I loose love's chains, bind me
At the end of all my faith, till the end of all my days
When I forget my name, remind me

'Cause we bear the light of the Son of Man
So there's nothing left to fear
So I'll walk with you in the shadowlands
Till the shadows disappear

'Cause he promised not to leave us
And his promises are true
So in the face of all this chaos, baby,
I can dance with you

Jordan and I knew when we got engaged that the next several years will look quite differently for us than for some other couples. We'd be moving to a new city, and at that time we weren't sure where. Jordan would be going to school, and I would hopefully have a job.

Jordan and I each read "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan sometime last year. There is a poignant question that Chan asks in the book, "What are you doing everyday that requires faith?" That question was extremely hard to answer for both of us but was a question we found ourselves reflecting on often. I feel like the Lord has shown us this past year what faith is about and helped us to have faith even during uncertainty. We were led to Birmingham and signed a lease on an apartment before we even knew if Jordan had gotten into his program. We moved and Jordan quit his job before knowing if I had a job. We haven't had all of the answers, which would normally drive me crazy. We've been given the faith to trust and have seen that the Lord is sovereign, and He has richly blessed us. Jordan got into school. We both got jobs for the summer. I got a phone call the day before the wedding with an offer to teach kindergarten in the perfect school system for me. The Lord is good.