Nearly every day, Cool Mum and I ask each other what the future holds. Will our house ever sell? When or will the boy get a sibling playmate? Where will we be in a year? How about a month?
Some of that uncertainty is exciting. It’s like the world is completely open to us, and if we wanted – we could move to California or Europe or Australia. But realistically, it will be either here or Florida. And the impending worry that time is slipping away from us for certain things is nagging me. Completely unfounded, but it’s there.
How certain is your future? Do you feel like you know where and how your life will be a year from now? Are you happy about it?
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My husband is in the Air Force and we’ll be making our 8th move this coming summer. A year from now we could very well be planning our next move. Life is very hard to predict in the military but it’s also a good place to be as far as a steady job goes right now. My husband is currently deployed though and that part of the military is not fun. He left 26 Dec and will be home next month! I am thankful for his work and how he can support our family and the adventure of living many different places. When he does retire, it will be interesting to see if I get bored after living in one place for a few years. I’m just so thankful that God puts us right where we are supposed to be every time we move. I could write a book on that! I hope your house sells soon. Ours is for sell now too and it’s not fun living in it and keeping it ready to show. It’s been on the market 2 weeks and has only been shown one time.
Two answers for you, Cool Rents. On one hand, my eternal future is 100% secure. On the other hand, my immediate, earthly future is so insecure!
So much depends on this derned economy. But I hope my future includes selling our house, moving to Nashville and working in a ministry for the Lord.
Melene – a steady job is a lot to be thankful for these days, but like you said, the military comes with the cost of separation. Praise God for your thankful and hopeful disposition – that’s His grace!
Mary – you seem destined for Nashvegas.
Like you guys, we (I probably more than SHB) feel a bit of uncertainty about our future… though I suppose we know where we’ll be living for the next few years so it’s not too uncertain. The biggest uncertainty in my mind is not knowing when we’ll get to see friends and family next… not knowing when we’ll go “home.” Some days I’m good with that uncertainty, other days it drives me nuts.
The reality is that we serve a God who changes the rules, so no matter how certain we feel our future is, it’s not!
Like Mary, we’re waiting on the economy to provide us a little more stability – not that we’re feeling the urge to get up and get out, but it’s more a matter of: will we have to get up and get out? And if so, when will that be? And what should we be doing until then?
I think there will always be questions, and I think that makes things kind of fun.