Rounding a new corner

This week is quieter, with no interviews etc... So, I am back to being a housewife for a week (see below for developments regarding my future!). Today the sun is streaming into our kitchen through the french doors, so I thought I would share the image with you. You can imagine me sitting at the table typing away....

In previous blog entries I have talked about the minute by minute nature of a move like ours. To be honest, our life feels like a case study in such a mode of living! Many of you will know by now that I am in the process of applying for a year-long teacher training course (PDGE) at Edinburgh University's school of education - Moray House. I have a very slim chance of getting in this year for two reasons. First, I am applying very late in the year. Interviews are already taking place for RME teacher training and the course may close at any time. Second, I am limited in my Scottish schools experience. However, on the advice of the admissions folks and many others, I have decided to apply anyway. The thing is, that this is what I want to do. I don't know if I have ever felt so strongly about my vocational future as I do about my desire to teach. This is a good thing, I feel!! In the meantime, to cut a VERY long story short, I have been offered short term work with the Scottish Bible Society as their Youth Development Manager. Very much of the opinion that they want to work with where God is leading, they know fine that teaching is what I want to do. So, I will work for them short term until I know whether Moray House is a go for this year. If it isn't, then I will have to decide whether to stay with the Bible Society, or possibly work with another organization doing schools based work. EITHER WAY, if I don't get into Moray House this year I will have to try for next year, and get some significant schools experience along the way. This whole process has been one where I couldn't see the next step until it was happening. I still feel like that, which can be unnerving, but it is also very exciting. Who knows what will happen next, eh? Thankfully God does, and this whole experience is certainly a faith-strengthening exercise. If I didn't allow it to be that, I would be in a psychiatric institution by now, I am sure! This image of the sun streaming through the windows is how I feel about how God is moving us forward. We grope around wondering where we're meant to be going, and all of a sudden, the light floods our lives and we can see clearly what the next step would be. We are truly thankful for this! I do feel like we are rounding a new corner in our move. Now, I will start working and we'll enter a new phase, once again, in our life together. How exciting!

Hope you are all well. Maybe sometime soon I will make Brian post some entries! He's doing fine, by the way. Homesickness hits every now and then of course. We just have to ride those moments and do whatever we can to take care of ourselves and each other in the midst of it.