Gonna be a Buckeye

Alright people… I know…I need to update everyone on my crazy ever changing life! So here it is… first things first… I'm getting….MARRIED!!! I've often wondered if this day would ever come… so here I am 29 years old… engaged to the most amazing man! If you want to find out how all the engagement stuff happened go to this website: http://www.theknot.com/wedding/Nick-and-Kendra …Okay so back to the update… well I am moving… BIG SHOCKER RIGHT?! I mean hello that should be my middle name Kendra Moving Cable. I feel like I am always moving… I've started to wonder if I am a gypsy at heart… Here is the story…

So Nick and I are pretty set on living in the same city/area before we get married…well we have prayed separate and alone many times about where we were going to end up…would he come here…would I go there?… Well each time I have prayed, visited him…or each time he has came here… I just have always felt as if I should be there. I knew that leaving my job… would be hard… I mean I just started there 4 months ago… I LOVE my job…I LOVE my clients…I LOVE my co-workers but…I LOVE Nick more… So I started sending out resumes to places out in Ohio… BUT I didn't just send them anywhere… I was very specific… I sent them places that I could still do ABA Therapy at. I started sending resumes in the beginning of February…I only sent three. A couple of days later a company by the name of The Learning Spectrum emailed and told me that they didn't have any openings and asked if I wanted them to keep my resume on file…of course I said yes….hold up… I need to back up a little in this story…

OKAY SO I HAVE TO CONFESS… For a long long long while… I wasn't totally on board with moving… actually I was a little uneasy and very doubtful for my own reasons… well the weekend of February 14th I went out to visit Nick…It was honestly the most amazing/peaceful weekends I have ever spent with him. I had no doubt, no fears and no worries. I fully told God…"okay, I will move here." Well… on February 19th a received an email from that same company saying they weren't hiring…and they told me that they would like to interview because they have a position open. Seriously… the same week that I say okay God I give up… They emailed!

I had my first (phone) interview with this company on February 21st. The interview was great and I got recommend for a second interview with the director. The wait to find out when this interview would be was horrible! But I had my second phone interview on February 27th..and they hired me over the phone! Here are the GOD things:

-The fact that I got a job in the field that I desired.
-They offered me the pay that I needed.
-Nick has a crazy schedule at work 1-10 every day but Friday and Sunday… well my hours are M-TH 9-3:30 and on Friday 9-12:30…so we can spend Friday together!
-A friend Sheila (from Columbus) texted me the day of my first interview and told me that if I ever needed a place to move before the wedding I could help her rent her house!
-The place I will be working has three locations…the location that they needed me at was a 45-50 min drive… I got an email asking me if they could change my location which is now 20-25 min away from where I will be living!

Seriously!!! If anything else amazing happens I don't know what I am going to do! As you can see God is so good! I just need to not be so hesitant…and allow him to bless me!

Oh and I move on Friday the 14th of March… 2 days away!!!

Love, Peace, Chicken Grease!

WOMAN... You are blessed

Blessed abundantly was a phrase that I have heard so much as a little kid. I would never forget singing the song that says, "that life abundantly"...as I would turn and shake my butt because of course the song had motions. I also understand that what I described may seem strange to you if you have never heard the song... but for those of you who have...you understand. As a kid I loved this song... but I never really understood the words... I actually thought it was amazing that I got to shake my butt in church and no adult told me I was going to go to hell for shakin it fast. As I got older I started to understand that abundantly didn't mean if you got a butt ...shake it in church...instead I started to learn that abundantly was a blessing.. well and so is a booty to shake... Now that I am at the stage in my life that I am at abundantly has taken a whole new meaning...

I often look at my life and say, "self...you are one blessed woman..crazy to think that the Lord wants to give you more." I often wonder what I have done to deserve so many blessings in my life...and it all comes down to obedience...and yet again in my journey of life I share with you now...a testimony of obedience.

Many months ago I started feeling discouraged and really was at the point where I wanted to pull away from my ministry and everything it involved. Little did I know that in those moments of discouragement Jesus was working something out (isn't he always at work)...I continued to pray for guidance and direction.. knowing that my heart wasn't fully with one part of my job. For those of you who know me well..you will know that if my heart isn't fully in the ministry that I am involved in...I will choose to not be a part of a half heart job. As you can imagine this was very frustrating to me. See I was hired for my job to actually do two jobs...one was working with mommies and their babies...the other was to work with the maternity home. Well long story short... my heart was being pulled away from the mommies and their babies. Don't get me wrong...I love those girls and the little lives that they brought into this world...but I couldn't continue with them and feel that I was giving them the things that they needed. After a series of events my boss called me one day and asked me how I would feel about working full time in the maternity home. He had no idea that I had secretly been praying this that would happen. Now here I am as the Head Houseparent for the maternity home (The Royal Home)...I praise God for this blessing. Along with this blessing comes many more challenges but along the way the Lord is teaching me. At the age of 28 and with no husband I feel so inadequate to lead these girls but I push on.