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K: It has been seven days since our last post, and if you remember, we took it upon ourselves to go one week without meat. So...how did we do?
Honestly, we didn't find it too challenging. Some days, it was hard walking up Main Street and catching a whiff of the cafe's burgers, or resisting devouring an entire order of chicken wings from Papaleno's. We did have one "cheat" day, Saturday, in which we attended a cook-out sponsored by Kelly's work. We didn't go too crazy, though, in the sense that we both had just
one chicken wing. Fried rice became a good friend of ours. Our weight didn't really change either, which we kind of expected, but that's ok, considering that wasn't the end goal. We were just curious...and a little bit broke. So will we do it again? Probably. We had to get pretty creative with some of our recipes, but overall we enjoyed incorporating more veggies into our diet. The drastically reduced cost of groceries for the week was a good incentive, too!
And this concludes our one week without meat. We learned a lot, had a good time...but honestly, if anyone would care to drop off a couple of steaks or a rotisserie chicken, that would be pretty amazing.
Switching gears a little, and we're just going full disclosure here, because we can do that here. In case some of you are a little behind, we are in the process of moving, this time into a house. We do have a house lined up, although we've only seen it from the outside. However, here's where the situation gets a little hairy: The family that is living in the house now is waiting on a closing date for a house they're buying. Once they get their closing date, they will move out, and we will move in. We are not buying, we're renting (Just in case that wasn't clear). We do not know when this closing date will be. It's been two weeks since we first made contact with our eventual landlord. When I called him last week, hoping to affirm my fear of him not giving the house away to someone else, he informed me that they still had not reached a closing date, but that he still had our contact information and would reach out to us when they closed. That was a week ago. We still have not heard anything.
Honestly...it's been hard. Our many frustrations with our current living situation, for reasons we don't wish to discuss at this time, have nearly reached a tipping point. Let's just say it's gone on too long. Period. In addition, it's just the
waiting...the waiting and waiting for a phone call. My (Holly) hopes soar every time my phone rings, and plummet when it's someone else besides the phone call we're anxiously waiting for. It's the doubt...the doubt of wondering, nearly agonizing ourselves, if this is ever going to happen at all. It's discouraging- another day that passes with silence, with no news. But through all of this, we've learned a lot about grace, and we are thankful for that. I (Holly) read Proverbs 3:5-6 recently, and I've been heavily meditating on that, relying on that promise in God's word. We've been praying. We've been praying a lot. And still waiting.
So that's where we are right now. If you feel led to pray for us, please do so. And pray for the family that is waiting on a closing date; it's probably just as frustrating for them, if not more so, than it is for us. But we KNOW that something better is coming, and we KNOW that God is faithful. It's just that some days are easier than others, and we thank God that He can handle our joys and our frustrations as well. Thanks for following along with us, as always. We hope to hear something soon.
