Our plans are not His--- a recap of April

We are settling in to life in America for now.

We were supposed to be in Mongolia now... at least that was our plan.

God's plan seems different. His direction for us in this time has been clear on each day, but murky for the future.

God is leading us, but it is not following our plan.

"The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps." Proverbs 16:9 continues to come to mind. In the fall, I had submitted to the Lord to do whatever he wanted, again. I had embraced living in Mongolia, again. I had humbled my wishes and dreams and hopes and submitted them to God, again. I was settled.

In March, Peter and I sat down (at my request) and made a planning framework for the next five years. :) It was a good plan--- well laid on a piece of paper in my notebook. It made me feel good to know what continent we were planning on being on from 2010-2015.

Now that paper lays in the dust of my old home in Selenge. It is in the notebook with all my other plans, teacher plans, house cleaning plans, menu plans, diet plans. I didn't bring it to America.

In March (the same month that we wrote our five year plan) we came to America to say goodbye to Grandpa Bob. We attended his funeral and planned some time to hang out with family. Then we heard the word apraxia.

Sierra having apraxia is totally outside of our plan. We were hoping to do speech therapy in our home in Mongolia. However, this type of therapy is totally beyond us. It is brain training to produce "motor planning" so that Sierra's brain can communicate with her mouth. Of course, we can't risk Sierra's ability to speak, so here we are.

God's plan is there, his leading us is there. Settled, however, doesn't seem to be part of the plan.

In AZ we searched for therapy with a specialist. We want the best for our little princess. We thought we had to move to MI then NM. Then we found a specialist 20 miles from family in Corona, CA. So we moved again.

Into my mom's basement. We saw the specialist, yes apraxia. Yes a year of therapy to see how she responds. Now what?

God provided through our family. They gave us a house and car. We have work to do within the mission for the year as well. All of this in less than a month....

So we are here in Highland in grandpa's old home. It is such a blessing to have a space for our family. It is a four bedroom house- I have a den! It has a nice grassy yard that is completely fenced.

At my beloved 99c store there were seeds- 9 packs for 99c. So I bought 25 kinds and planted a garden with my kids. They enjoyed a day in the mud and I enjoyed putting down roots and imagining what it will look like.

So my roots grow with the garden, one centimeter at a time until God's plan for our life is revealed in a beautiful blooming, fruit producing garden.