Beyond Fiction

I recall seeing a banner once at a church I attended that read “We can make our plans but the final outcome is in God’s hands!”. It’s stuck with me for many years and is appropriate for today also.

I’ve posted recently about our plans to move to North Carolina. We had our plans to move on July 6th of this year but the plans have changed. Strangely, they practically changed over night or at least over the last weekend!

The simple fact is that my daughter flew to North Carolina this weekend to help take care of my grandson. Those plans changed once she got there but they led to my wife and I sitting down and discussing our plans. We even decided at one point that we weren’t even going to make the move. Call it cold feet or call it being logical but we were finally discussing our fears about the move. Up to this point that was a topic that was taboo!

The many proposals I threw out on Sunday evening were met with reluctance by my wife. I finally threw out a proposal that I knew she would go for but I was reluctant to mention. I proposed that I would fly down to North Carolina and spend the month of June exploring the job market. If I find a job, then I would go to work and get a place and come back to move my wife and daughter as planned. If I don’t find a job then I will fly my oldest daughter and I back to Texas and we will go with our plan B!

Plan B has yet to be determined!

In the logical realm of things, this is the best way to do this. It will cost less for me to fly to N.C. and if it doesn’t work out then at least we did try! We will still have our moving funds available when we get back. If it works out, we can move straight to our own place and not be an inconvenience to my son and his family.

My experience in life is that two families in one home for too long can really make life difficult and lead to some bad things happening! I love my family too much to put them in a position that will hurt them in the long run.

So, this weekend I will fly to N.C. and start checking out the prospects. It’s an uncertain future but at least it is a little less stressful.

My life is almost like a soap opera right now! Maybe I should sell the idea and make tons of money and not have to worry about all this!

Have a great week everyone.

Ken