God is Good!

Theme Music: The Hallejullah Chorus (I don't know how to include music yet)

We are rejoicing here at our home because my dear hubby just signed a contract for a new job. This is the job that he went to college for and we have been praying for since December 2005. In our human time frame we never expected that it would take so long to get a teaching job. According to the news there is a teacher shortage after all! However we filled out applications, he went to interviews, and still no job. We filled out more applications and started looking at schools outside of San Antonio feeling that if God wanted us to move then we would do so. All the while we prayed and waited. Dennis worked a variety of jobs while we waited because I had quit my full time teaching job and we were expecting a baby. Dennis got additional certification to make himself more marketable and was willing to teach any subject and any grade, but our phone was still not ringing off the hook with offers of employment. However this summer at least people were calling asking for interviews. Well, now he has a job with a classical Christian school in Boerne. We are so excited. Several of our friends are sending their children there this fall. It will be a little bit of a drive, but he will get to teach History, the subject he really wanted to teach. We saw his classroom yesterday, and of course I'm excited about pulling the stuff out of boxes from my classroom and helping him get his all ready. He starts inservice the last week of August and classes start the first week of Sept. School ends the last week of May. So it will really be an ideal schedule.
God has been so good and faithful to us through this whole time. He has provided for us financially. This last year when Dennis was substituting in the public school system, the only days that he did not work (besides holidays and ice days) were the two days he chose not to work when we had the baby. We have a healthy baby who continues to grow and is adored by our family. I have had no ill effects from my seizure and have in fact been seizure free now for six months. Praise the Lord!
We have learned so much about the faithfulness of our God. We as Christians say that we believe God is sovereign but when times get tough we don't act like it. This was a time for us to wait on God and to see if we really believed what we said we did. We said we trusted God to do what was best and it was wonderful to see Him fulfill His promises time after time. God has been so good to us! This will truly be one of the "memorial stones" in our life that we can share with our daughter.