I cannot believe how soon it is until Dave and I leave Leeds. We’re due to move on the first weekend in August and I feel totally unprepared. I’m trying to get quotes from removal companies, I’ve transferred our house insurance, I’ve looked on the internet for the price of beds and sofas (our new house is unfurnished and so we’ll have to buy or get people to donate certain items). Our Moo cards have arrived so we can hand them out to people with our new address – I’ve set up a new blog for people supporting us and wanting to find out whats going on as we start this new chapter – http://daveandjoyoung.wordpress.com. What else have I forgotten??
I am genuinely excited about the move but this is tinged with sadness at all the wonderful friends we’re leaving behind. Dave and I have been part of a strong community ever since we met and to be transplanted into a new group of people will be very strange. One of my main concerns about the move to Durham is feeling like a sore thumb in a room full of very theological people who have major academic discussions about things that don’t seem to apply to real simple everyday faith….
As for leaving, I know what I’m like – I don’t think about the consequences of things until they happen. I’ll be just fine in the preparations and not properly thinking about it and then, bam! it will hit me a day before we leave and I will be in floods of tears.
God is good and he’s going before us, this I know , for it’s evident in all the things that are coming together in our plans. My Grandad always says to me ‘all things good come to them that love God’ and I see that blessing in our life.
