The answer had come. The eight month wait was over.
My husband's voice greeted me on the other side of the telephone.
"Do you wanna be a doctor?" he asked.
Not fully awake but awake enough to know that I didn't want to get my hopes up, I hesitantly said, "um. . . yes????"
"Good, we're going to DC."
A sense of relief and joy like I haven't experienced since the night Philip handed me a map of England and announced that we would be stationed at RAF Mildenhall or the night Philip proposed (yes, we're dealing with proposal proportions here. . .) overcame me. Joy that I can start to really start to allow myeslf to engage with the "getting ready for school" process. Relief that the huge burden was off of my shoulders and that my poor husband wouldn't have to be balancing a madwoman on his hands whilst in the middle of a combat zone.
A drink of cold water after a long walk through the desert.
After our inital exchange, I was suddenly VERY AWAKE. I bounded down the stairs and jumped on Skype so that Philip could have the satisfaction of seeing me jump around screaming estatically (sorry neighbors!)
Here we go. Obviously, things aren't in the bag until Philip is actually in place this fall. I'm praying that the assignment doesn't suddenly change (it's been known to happen), but resting in the fact that God obviously is bigger than the USAF assignment process.
The Lord very obviously has opened the door for us to spend the next chapter of our lives in DC. Philip was assigned a job at Andrews AFB that hadn't even been on the original list of options. He'll have a VERY difficult job, but we'll be TOGETHER!
It still hasn't hit me that I'm probably spending my last few months in England now. Wow, there's a lot to do. . . and I could be more excited to do it.
SOLI DEO GLORIA
To God alone be the glory. . .
4 comments:
gGreetings from your Mum in Minnesota! Just left a note on Facebook, saying "Thank You Jesus" and saying that we like middle-of-the-night phone calls that contain news like this. I'm going to hop on here and be the first at your blog to congratulate 1 Lt. Lere on his next assignment, and share your delight in the opportunity to step out into the next phase of a dream. Lately I had been wondering how many things God was arranging and orchestrating as people were praying about this matter. On Friday, part of my prayer was that if there was a person or situation that was hindering the answer (whether yes or no) that whatever might be blocking it, would be cleared away. Be wise in these next days and weeks.
In agreement with you: "To God be the glory."
Well that was fun news this morning. I'm glad I'm not a jealous person because Lt Lere wrote to his dad first and your mom beat me to getting a comment on your blog.I'm trying to figure out how to make DC a stop for jet lag on our overseas trips but I guess a two hour time difference doesn't quite justify that.It does mean you'll be gone by the time we have our last trip to the UK in October but we'll figure out something.Congratulations to you both. We love you.#1
Oh I'm just SO SO SO SO SO happy for you! Things like this are of epic proportions and I totally understand!!! Congrats and praise be to God!
PS - I got your facebook message about July. We have family coming for a lot of july and then friends the second week of August so I'll have to see. Trav has to work a surgery in there sometime in between and it'll be a long recovery.... so can I get back to you???
Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Thank you, Jesus! I'm so happy for you both! Wonderful news! And guess what? I can come see you when I go visit my parents in MD! :)
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