Settling In

I've been in my new home for about a week now, and am definitely feeling more and more settled in with each passing day. I'm not quite done decorating my room - when I am, I'll be sure to post some pictures.


I realized that not all of you may know how I ended up here in beautiful San Diego, and I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you a brief version. If you'd like more details, shoot me an email or give me a call.

It became very apparent to me in January that God was leading me off staff with the Navigators, but to what, I wasn't exactly sure. I started to pursue my options, and discovered there were many. I could stay in Tucson and get a job, or move back to my hometown of Gilbert and work with my family, or move to Phoenix and get a job, or move to Denver and get a job, or move to Seattle and get a job...and on and on. The next little piece of the puzzle God revealed was that leaving Arizona was the best thing. Yet again, to where, I wasn't exactly sure. I visited Seattle, and I visited Denver, and both just didn't quite feel like the right fit. There are a lot of cities in this big, beautiful country of ours, and I started to get overwhelmed by the possibilities. However, I did know that moving to a place where I could have some community with people in my same stage of life was a huge value for me. So, I sent out an email to my EDGE class - a pool of around 60 people who, by definition, were in a similar stage of life: trying to figure out what to do after EDGE. I asked if anyone else wanted to do the next phase together, and said I was pretty open as to where that would happen.

My friend Eileen was the only one to respond in the affirmative. She said she wasn't sure exactly what was next, but she was pretty sure she wanted to move to San Diego. I started thinking and praying, and things really started to come together. Our mutual friend, Ann, has lived in San Diego for several years now, and coincidentally (or, more accurately, in a God-ordained fashion) had two roommates moving out this summer, and was in need of two women who love God to take their places. Through a series of events, we decided it would be a good fit, and now, a few months later, Eileen and I are living with Ann and two other wonderful women: Jen and Cori.

Wow, I was trying to be brief. God just did a lot to get me here, and it's hard to shorten down much farther than that. Anyway, I'm getting settled in, getting to know these new roommates of mine, missing people in Tucson terribly, and seeing the goodness of God left and right.

It's certain there will be a lot more to come in this grand adventure of mine.