Beginning

Steve and I have been in Arizona 4 months together. I moved here October 31, 2008, and started my new job at Clinica Adelante on November 10, 2008. Fitting time to begin...Marine Corps Birthday and Cameron had just left active duty!

We are "honeymooning". We really have never been alone, so this time is new...different and a bit unsettling. We are starting to know each other in a new and better light.

The first 6 months we spent apart. Steve was back in Muncie trying to sell the house, get Shelbe settled at Butler, getting Cameron re-settled in Muncie and fulfilling his obligation to the Emmaus Community as the Lay Director of Walk #25. It was not just hard...it was really hard. this new place, new job, new church, new people, new culture...no friends, no real sense of belonging and no family around (Mom and Dad were in Lake Havasu City...but still not "here). It was a time of reflection and re-beginning. God is so good. He gave me the time to see Him in a new light...one of purpose and conviction.