Day Nine Hundred and Ninety-Eight

The Third DL Home

Prior to this long and drawn out little stint on the DL, Adam and I had only to depend on God's housing provision twice a year. Once in April, once in October. And once we found a place - giving brief and uninspired praise to the Provider of all life - His provision was kind of just, well…thanked for and moved on from. When I'd comment on how faithful the Lord has been in all our moves, it's never really, truly moved my heart. It burdens me to write that. But it's the truth.

While I was in NOLA, the girls and I started a Bible study. 

In one lesson, we learned about this food that the Israelites would eat called manna. I'd heard the story - and read it - many times, but it never really stuck with me. While the Israelites were wandering through the desert, tired and hungry, the Lord sustained them with a special type of bread. Each day, they'd wake up, collect bread scattered all over the land, but were only "allowed" too keep just enough bread to last them throughout the day. Nothing more. If they did decide to hoard it over night, the next day, they'd wake to maggots infesting what they'd disobediently piled up. It was during this time that the Israelites learned to trust God daily for His provision. Daily. Not just twice a year. Not once a month. Not even once a week. Every. Single. Day they depended on his provision of manna. 

It's taken a trip to the DL for me to finally wrestle with and acknowledge this idea for my own life. That literally, God is providing for us on a daily basis. That he's maybe narrated this entire frustrating episode to get me to understand how involved he really is, and how much more praise and honor He's deserving of. He's teaching me to trust him on the nights I have no idea where we'll end up tomorrow. We're currently in our third bed (Adam's fourth) in Jupiter, and driving our second car and have only some idea of where we'll be come tomorrow - when this bed becomes a thing of the past. But for me to worry about that at this point, would only be taking away from what God has for me today. 

I'm learning a lot here in Jupiter. 

How to trust. 

How to ask. 

And how to humbly say "thank you." 

It's been an incredible three weeks of ups and downs, but for me, it's been a hugely rewarding and faith building experience.