To Seek Not Our Own

Here's a picture of some of the fun we have had since we've been home. We love His waterfalls!

Things in Mahshie land have been especially crazy lately!

After our wonderful summer of traveling, we returned to our lovely base in Hendersonville. We love being here. The town is great, the people are great, and the scenery is unbelievably beautiful.

Here's what we expected to happen in this next season of life:
- Move into our cute and cozy 1920s cabin with our dog, Eastwood, and enjoy beginning a home together
- Nicole would work in Asheville with a photographer, and pursue freelance photography
- John would focus his efforts on Sermon Jams - making the site more dynamic and community oriented, he would work at our church in Asheville part time, and pursue ceramics with mentor Michael Sherrill
- Nicole would help with administrative things of sermon jams, such as e-mails, updates, and thank you notes

Here's What Actually Happened:
- We discovered water rot in the kitchen and had to completely gut the kitchen and the bathroom, making it impossible for us to stay at the cabin. We moved into John's Mom's down the road and have transported only the necessities to her guest room.
- Nicole's car broke down and we had to spend an unexpected $300 to fix it
- We've had to put our goals with Sermon Jams on hold to focus time, effort, and energy to restoring our cabin on a limited budget...and so John's been building websites and I have been freelancing.

It has been a struggle (especially for me, Nicole) to be at peace with such a change of plans. We are thankful to have a comfortable and close-by place to stay, but it is not without its challenges. We know that the Father loves us and that He knows what's up, and so we try to wait patiently for his provision.

Keep us in prayer, we know perseverance is born of such events, and from perseverance hope!