Why are you moving?

I love this question. Why are you moving? The hubby is being given an opprotunity that just doesn't happen very often in the company he works for. He will be learning a bunch and getting more experience in his field. This will also help futher his career. All good things. But that's really not the real reason as you will soon see...

I would've loved to be in my husband's head when he was thinking about how to propose moving our family to Tokyo for a year. I'm sure he thought Jen is gonna freak out. I remember praying that God would help me not to flip out. My response to him, originally was "are you serious?" Once again praying he would say 'no I'm just messing you [insert laugh]'! Yet after 10 minutes of listening to him I realized he was dead serious. It became very clear that hubby and I were on different pages. All I could think of was leaving EVERYTHING I knew for a bunch of unknown. Yeah I was kind of freaking out!


 Honestly I struggled to be happy about this. I just wasn't in faith to move across the world. Someone reminded me that as a wife it was part of my job to support my man. This woman was quoting me! Yep that was a bold friend. I prayed constantly that God would give me faith to move, but more importantly change my hubby's mind. I remember praying that God would make my husband see it was crazy to move us to Tokyo! Fast forward a few months, I have agreed to move for a year. During the previous few months God was really showing me how faithful He had been to me. So now I finally have the faith to move for a year. Then one day my wonderful husband comes home and says 'We aren't moving to Tokyo for only a year! We get to live there for 2 years!' I will admit I had a temper tantrum like a 2yr old. It was not one of my better moments. That poor husband of mine was probably not expecting me to respond this way. I had convinced myself that I could do a year! On the plus side it took less time for me to see that I was relying on my abilities and not on God to help me. 


Now here we are almost ready to move. There are tons of stuff left for me to do, begin and finish. We have not gotten an apartment or our visas. The older girls have to a Skype interview with the school. We still need a renter for our house. I have yet to even begin the packing process. I have about 30+ days till I am suppose to get on a plane to start my new life in Tokyo. I am extremely excited to see what God is going do. I am also very sad to leave my family, friends, and church behind. Yet I know that God will be there with us the whole way. So the real answer to why we are moving? is that this is what God has planned for my hubby, daughters, and me