A New Chapter...

So we've moved. After 4 and a half years of living in the sleepy, but beautiful town of New Bern, NC my wife and I have moved to the relative metropolis of Louisville, KY. We moved in around the first of July and have just been trying to get settled since then. I'm waiting tables and my wife is still looking for a job. I'm kind of skipping ahead, though. But, since, I don't know if anyone actually reads this post, (aside from my brother-in-law who made fun of the blog title) I guess it doesn't matter. But, in a nutshell, here's what has happened over the past few years that led us to making this move.
I'd been in the TV biz for only a year or two when I started feeling very discontent. Since this can also just be flesh and sin, I ignored it for a long time thinking I just needed a change of scenery. The feelings of desperation and the struggle to find meaning in my work intensified and I began to talk with God about it (I know, I'm a quick study). He began to direct my heart through His Word and several key relationships toward the idea of ministry. And that's all it was at first, 'an idea'. I had always had some vague belief that someday I might end up in a full-time ministry position. But, I had also thought that ministry requires 'a call'. And it does, but it doesn't necessarily look like what I thought. Through prayer and conversations with Godly influences in Em and I's life. He began to define and direct our hearts and our plans. About two years ago my wife and I were spending time with her sister and husband before they left for Asia. We started talking about the future and they mentioned that they had been praying for us and they also brought up Seminary as a potential next step. After that, I couldn't get it off my mind. Em and I prayed and prayed and talked and struggled and prayed some more, and eventually God brought us both to the place where we believed that we were to follow his lead and pursue training for a life of ministry. We tried to take the careful road first, by saying we wouldn't leave unless God provided a job. Well...He didn't, but through another 'divine appointment' God brought just the right couple into our lives. Their message was simple. "He called us to walk by faith, not by sight". He confirmed this message in our hearts, so we left. Now, here I am several months later at Panera Bread typing this blog post which I'm about to send out into the oblivion of cyberspace. I'm waiting tables, my wife is unemployed, and we have no idea how he is going to provide. So this is it, the beginning of the adventure...