When a son decides that he wants to take you out to dinner you should know something is up.

I asked him, jokingly, if he was getting married and didn't tell us!  He said no but...... there is a chance that he might be moving.  Moving out of our house.  Moving out of state.  God had prepared me for this.  The reason he took us out to dinner was he didn't want me to get upset.  He wanted me to be calm.  Funny thing is God had prepared me.  I told him that is fine but just make sure he is doing it for God's glory.  That this is what God wants him to do.  He has it figured out but there is still a lot to think about and get ready financially if you are going to do this right.  I told him that God gave him us for a short time.  We are to raise him the best we can and send him off.  He feels this is his time.

My husband opened up his mouth at a retreat recently letting everyone know that we are interested in helping out couples & premarried couples.  I have a heart for children and so does dh.  But he has a heart for marriages.  Together we are interested in helping out families.  Since he has opened his mouth we have been in full swing of listening to people.  Now we are waiting to see what is going to happen next.

This next weekend we are attending a Weekend to Remember Conference put on by Family Life.  We are going to be chaperoning a couple who is to be married this coming July.  We know this couple well as they have attended our church and some of my children will be in their wedding.  We are looking forward to this weekend.  Spending time with them and encouraging them.

God has put it on my heart for 4 more couples from our church to go.  I hope God will move mountains to get these couples to go.  It's not only for couples marriages who are in trouble but it's there for strengthening them.

1 Thess. 5:11  Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.