When it Rains...

I haven't gotten off to the best start on my resolutions. My weight is slightly up (and I've cheated on my diet a few times this week - hello, Dove chocolates!) and the running isn't terribly compatible with the snow on the ground. Maybe I'll make running a "starts-April-first" resolution. Why should January get all the excitement?

Sermon transcription is humming right along, and I'm catching chances here and there to read. Genealogy has taken a back seat to life right now, but I've been mulling some ideas around in my head. I've baked two pies; they just aren't on my list! The Easter project hasn't started yet - again due to a lack to time.

We spent two nights this past week at an apologetics conference in Milan (Michigan, not Italy) and that was time well-spent, for sure, and not just because I'm teaching apologetics this quarter in Sunday School. I cannot recommend enough the ministry of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum; if you have the opportunity to go, please do.

Through no (recent) direct action of my own, however, we have been making progress on our financial goal for 2012. Between now and next Monday (1/23), I have no less than four in-person interviews for full-time professional positions. Any one of these would more than double our 2011 income and allow us to make significant headway on getting out of debt. They would all mean a move for our family, but we've been prepared for that.

The timing couldn't be better: we need to move on to the next chapter of our working lives, and soon. Tiffany needs to cut back due to our new baby, and I can't support us all on pizza money alone. Our savings have lasted just long enough to carry us through the last 15 months, but we can see the bottom of the barrel. Praise God for His perfect provision and perfect timing. We need not fear, for God is with us.

Please be praying with us over the next weeks as we travel for interviews and await their responses. I will be going to Fort Worth, Texas, next Tuesday; then Hamilton, Ohio on Thursday; Mansfield, Ohio on Friday; and finally Carbondale, Illinois, on the following Monday. As I mentioned above, any of these would be a providential opportunity for us, and while we have our preferences, I'll be content just to have a full-time job again.