A New Adventure: Southern girl in a Northern World

Back in September of '18, we packed up our 5 br, 4.5 bh house and stuck a For Sale sign in the front yard.
We stuffed two adults, two kids, 1 cat and a bunch of things in the Nissan Rogue, waved goodbye to Alabama and headed north.
15 hours and 29 minutes
987 miles
9 states
Into an 2 br, 2 bh apartment in Queens, NY.
We traded this view...

 For this view...

Why you ask? One word: God.

For the last couple of years we had felt God was readying us for something. The small group we had considered "family" and our church went through major changes. So many changes that we found ourselves suddenly feeling drawn to look elsewhere for where we were supposed to be in a faith family. This was not easy since it was the church where E had been since a teenager, the church where we were married and had gone our entire marriage.

No where fit. Where God? Where are we supposed to be?

This is when I started to change as well. I no longer wanted the big house, with the big mortgage, and all the "stuff" with which you fill it. I wanted less. I wanted more quality, less quantity. I felt drawn to a more minimalist and simple life without the thousands of distractions. E and I both wanted to be debt free and be able to use our money to travel.

I know what you are thinking. NYC is not minimalist or simple! You are absolutely right. It is the antithesis of minimalist and simple. In my mind, NYC is a means to an end. You see, we were able to sell that big house, with the big mortgage, and get rid of a lot of the "stuff" with which you fill it. E is able to make twice to three times in NYC than what he did in AL. We are one step away from being debt free.

This is wonderful and I feel like it is a step in the right direction but I daily have to remind myself this

"Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand." Proverbs 19:21

 "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil." James 4:13-16

There is another purpose we are here, one that I do not understand or know yet but that He has ordained. We have seen God's hands through out this entire move so we feel confident that it is His doing and His will that we are now here. But why? We do not know.

So for now I will enjoy the adventure of being a Southern girl in a Northern world and see what He has planned.