Fresh Start

In ode to my most recent post "Rain" I've decided to start fresh. 
I owe a lot of that to my husband for taking the family to see an evangelist that he's seen before when he was younger. We checked his schedule and saw he would be somewhat local to us on Sunday so we decided to go see him. Being raised Baptist it was DIFFERENT to say the least. The evangelist was what I would consider a modern Pentecostal preacher. But I did learn a ton from his sermon, not just spiritually but historically as well. Some things I've read for years in the bible one way I realized meant something totally different due to the translation for the time period it was written in. I'm going to have to transition in baby steps because of the great radical differences, but I'm open to a new set of teachings. I've never seen my husband so into a church service or so "on fire" for The Lord as I saw during that sermon. 

In addition to a fresh start of our families spiritual life I've decided to have several fresh starts in our home life as well.  These fresh starts have prompted us to start looking into moving. Not necessarily moving "away" but moving somewhere better for our family. We've been too dependent on our extended family, not that there is anything wrong with that, but for where we are in our family we need some separation from them. If we lived just far enough away to not have them there for every beck and call we could learn how to depend on each other more. 
Our apartment lease is up in October and we will start looking then. Won't be able to buy anything just yet but looking to rent something for a year or so. 

Even though its August it's almost as if we've started a new year in our family. We've launched into several new beginnings for our family and I can't wait to see where we will be this time next year.