Capricious Jess

Let me start by saying, “I can’t belive it’s been a year already!”  We arrived in Owasso last year on Saturday August 4th…..that very first Sunday we went to a church in Broken Arrow called “Destiny”  I knew God was leading us on a journey, but I had no idea how much He would pack into our first year.

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If you would have asked me a year and two months ago if I would ever live in Oklahoma, my answer would have been an emphatic, “NO”.  I grew up in the North….which is a whole other post on its’ own…and lived in Madison, WI prior to moving here.  The story of how Josh and I got to Oklahoma is not as long as you might think….we had both walked away from the Lord for several years, met each other in the process, and moved in together in the beginning of 2006.  He was the most wonderful man I’d ever known.  We had a great time together.  We enjoyed the same….”activities” and liked the same music.  Then one day in July 2007 I was home and had an overwhelming ‘feeling’ that I was in the wrong place.  That’s it, that’s all I knew.  This ‘feeling’ was so strong that I called my mom and was very upset and said, “I just feel it in my gut, I’m not where I need to be”  …and I thought the only thing that it could possibly mean was that I was with the wrong guy.  So, Josh came home from work that night and I told him we needed to talk…..and that we needed to break up.  He was quite shocked and asked why…..I told him about my ‘feeling’……he basically said I was nuts, and that we weren’t breaking up, because we had a great relationship and that this ‘feeling’ must mean something else.  The next day while he was at work, his dad called…at the time Josh and his dad only spoke every three months or so.  He had called to ask if we would ever consider moving to Oklahoma…..he said God had really put it on his heart to ask us to come down.  Josh came home that day and told me what his dad said….I thought about for a minute…and I knew immediately that the feeling I had the day before was quite literally that I should not be where I was…in Wisconsin…..we needed to move to Oklahoma.  I gave notice at my job that following Monday,  and we left town three weeks later. 

Looking back, it is quite obvious to me that the ‘feeling’ I experienced was the Holy Spirit directing us back to where we were supposed to be.  And throughout this year, I feel like God has pressed the ‘fast-forward’ button on our lives to get us caught up to where we should be……since we took some time off of His path.  It’s been crazy, but here are a few of my favorite pics,  taken since we’ve been here,  to help illustrate what we’ve been up to…….