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I keep saying these words to my husband. “Something’s changing. I can feel something changing.”

I find it interesting, to say the least, in a look back, even over the last 2 years, how things in our lives have been woven together to take a completely different direction than either of us ever thought life would.

Some background……

My husband and I met in college and married a year after he graduated. Yes, I’m older. Lucky guy! ;)

I went to school to be an occupational therapist and I could never find a connection with it. I could never find peace in my job. I knew I didn’t want to continue working when and if we had children. It just didn’t fit me. But I couldn’t find anything else that did either.

We had our son – Mr. Man, as I’m going to call him. (Enough of our lives are online, as you’ll see in a moment, that I don’t need to reveal all the details of our family, just to honor the privacy of my husband and children.) I quit working and started praying about what I would do when someday he would go to school. Girly Girl came next followed almost immediately thereafter by Little Miss.

Life was crazy. Three kids in 4 years. Things were busy. Things were tight, but we were making it.

March ahead 6 years and I decide I want to start a hobby – just a simple online business as a result of finding out that you can shop AND help people. Delicate Fortress Creations was born.

What started as a hobby became a very busy business, albiet seasonally. The things we have learned as a result of that business, the ways our life started taking us, felt more like a whirlwind than the settled feeling I was expecting when 2 out of 3 children had embarked upon their school careers.

The whirlwind of that change has prepared me for what I feel is changing now.

We are feeling called, prompted to do more. To stop being so comfortable.

My husband has a good job, for which I am very thankful. As a result of what we’ve been given there, we live a very comfortable life.

But something doesn’t feel right.

Because I’m beginning to depend on that comfort.

And that’s not what He has called me to do.

He has called me to follow Him – with all of me. To pick up my cross. To seek after Him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. How can I do that if I’m too busy being comfortable in my own little life?

As time goes on I’m finding myself becoming quickly angered by the smallest, simplest things. I’m finding myself filled with envy that I didn’t anticipate. I’m finding myself yearning for more.

But I think I want different more. I want Him more.

And this is a chronicle of the journey we haven’t yet taken, out of our comfort zones and into finding what’s beyond.