{"id":233,"date":"2015-04-25T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/25\/where-to-go-through-all-this\/"},"modified":"2015-04-25T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T10:00:31","slug":"where-to-go-through-all-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/25\/where-to-go-through-all-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Go Through All This"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we start our life in a new home, in a new part of the
\ncountry, I reflect on how the Jews must have felt entering the Promised Lands.
\nNever once did God tell the Israelites it would be easy, rather there were
\ngiants and kingdoms to conquer. Joshua 1:2<\/a><\/b> starts the adventure into the
\nPromised Lands:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Since My
\nservant Moses is now dead, you and the Israelites must prepare to cross over
\nthe Jordan River to enter the land I have given you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before they enter, remember they wandered the wilderness for
\n40 years because the first time they went to enter the people listened to the
\nscouts in fear about the hurdles. This time they are facing a flood swollen
\nriver, but this time they said we will step in faith. Note the same \u201cgiants\u201d
\nwere on the other side of the river they just had faith God would keep his
\npromise.<\/p>\n

Now I am not saying we had to fight giants or cross a flood
\nswollen river but we did have obstacles when to overcome. Interestingly rains
\ndid take out the road across one of our creeks before we moved in, but it was
\ncalm when we actually took possession. Most of the \u201cgiants\u201d we had to deal with
\nwere self-generated. Although the property was \u201cperfect\u201d we did not have
\nfacilities we needed for horses, so the work has begun. <\/p>\n

The first giant was moving in, a two bedroom home to house 4
\npeople and guests makes living situations tense. Add onto this the truck we own
\nthat is to move the \u201cextra room\u201d AKA the trailer is broken. And over it all we had
\nway more stuff than we thought, remember there was a 4 horse trailer full, a
\npickup truck with a 10 foot trailer full and a 15 foot U-Haul with a car that
\nwere both full moving into a home that was \u201cmove in ready\u201d since we bought the furniture.
\nThe previous owner left a bunch of things including food, so technically we
\nreally needed very little.<\/p>\n

The second \u201cbattle\u201d has been fixing up the horse facility
\nsince the previous owner did not have them. What seemed simple has done sever
\ndamage to our septic system and took out a water main into the garage. This all
\nhappened before we had completely moved out of the temporary home, so that schedule
\nwas being pushed hard. When the move was complete we had 2 hours to spare
\nbefore we had to be out. Through this we still had to rent a storage facility
\nfor temp housing of things, all of which has caused stress.<\/p>\n

As I mentions before the initial \u201csure thing\u201d job I had did
\nnot transpire and I now work part time for a cleaning service doing floors and
\ntoilets. Often it costs me more to drive to the job than I make working, but it
\nkeeps me busy. But my days \u201coff\u201d are filled with hard labor, including yesterday
\nmoving about 2 to 2.5 cords of wood form a stall to open it up for one of the
\nhorses. Life is not \u201ceasy\u201d by any means. Hence why I think back to Israel
\nmoving into the Promised Land since it was in no way \u201ceasy\u201d for them either.
\nThey did not have it \u201chanded to them on a silver platter\u201d but rather had to
\nwork had to earn it and work hard to maintain it. <\/p>\n

The key to this experience is God never said life
\nwould be easy and even when you get what you want you still have to milk the
\ncow, shovel their poo, feed them and fight the bees to get the honey!! Sure paradise
\nmay sound \u201ceasy\u201d but it is in no way that at all!! Nor was life every meant to
\nbe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we start our life in a new home, in a new part of the country, I reflect on how the Jews must have felt entering the Promised Lands. Never once did God tell the Israelites it would be easy, rather there were giants and kingdoms to conquer. Joshua 1:2 starts the adventure into the … Continue reading “Where to Go Through All This”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[119,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}