Leaps of faith are a fact of life in our family. Our family life has been built on radical acts of trusting that everything would work out one way or the other.
John and I had been married eleven months and had a baby on the way when we abandoned good jobs in Washington, D.C. and moved back to my hometown, where we had family but no prospects at all. Oh, we tried to find jobs before moving, but our failure didn’t put a damper on our plans in the least. In the year it took for John to gain resident status so he would be eligible for in-state tuition at the University of Tennessee College of Law, he worked at the UT Traffic Office by day and sold shoes by night. I got a secretarial job just weeks before I could no longer conceal my pregnancy, which would have severely limited my ability to find a good job.
We had one kid by the time John started law school and the third was on the way by the time he passed the bar exam. There were hard and scary times, uncertain times, and often it was only looking back at what we’d been through that we could see how our prayers were always answered. Not necessarily in the way that we thought we wanted them to be, not always immediately, but always, in God’s time.
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Trusting in God; Giving up Control
