Life is never simple and even for believers, we often don't understand the path God leads us down. My wife, Terry, has battled clinical depression for most of her life. It's not something easy to understand unless you have suffered it and if you have, I'm truly sorry. It cannot be overturned with 'positive thinking' and all your faith in God doesn't turn it off. Terry's faith is very strong and she is confident in her salvation but our bodies still suffer the results of a fallen nature and physical challenges.

We have learned that excessive stress requires rest for her to recover and moving our home nearly 500 miles last May was just such an event. After settling into our new farm/home, Terry was feeling good and we set about to visit some local churches. Our second church visit landed us in what has proven to be a huge blessing and a family of believers who love God and allow that love to overflow for everyone they meet. We are blessed with a wonderful pastor and his wife who we quickly grew very close to. Then the bottom fell out. The medicine that has helped for nearly 30 years, suddenly quit working. Fortunately, the Lord led us to a helpful clinic that was able to switch her to a new medicine even more suited to her needs and was genetically aligned with her DNA. It's working but has taken nearly a month and a half to make recovery. During that time, our church family, who we barely got to know, has faithfully prayed, called, texted, emailed, and our pastor has visited. This week is the first full week of services we have been able to attend since Terry's med change and it has been such a blessing.

Generally, it takes nearly a year for a new family to become embedded into a new church family but it appears God has done that for us in just a few months. We will likely never understand the path we travel on this earth but God will explain it all when we are in heaven.