Settling in

Our move is completed.
On Friday we came and cleaned our new home and a friend helped me unpack most of the kitchen.
Saturday was the main moving day. Rob had scheduled to pick up the U-Haul at 9:30 a.m. and several guys were meeting us at our apt. around 10:00 a.m. After business hours on Friday evening some man from the U-Haul place called Rob and told him that his other business came first and he would only be able to have a truck available for Rob at 10:30. a.m. So Rob called all the guys and told them to come at 11:00 a.m. He called me at 11:00 when all, but one guy, had already showed up at our apt. and said that he was in line at the U-Haul place and still did not have a truck.
Around 11:45 a.m. he called me again to say that he had a truck, but that he had to drive to another U-Haul store to fill out the paperwork. (umm. . . . excuse me? What was stopping him from just driving the truck to our apt., using it for the move and then returning it without EVER paying or filling out ANYTHING? ) So, finally at 12:30ish p.m. he gets back to apartment and the poor hungry guys can start loading the truck. (Meanwhile my girlfriend and I drove to the new house, picking up pizza and ice for drinks along the way. We'd had all my stuff from the freezer and the fridge in the car since 11:00)
Needless to say IT WAS A VERY LONG DAY!
Poor Jake! He was so confused and frustrated! His crib wouldn't fit through the doorways at our new home and Rob was only able to take it apart after 7p.m. on Saturday night. We were finally able to make his little bed around 9p.m. When I put him in his crib, he started to laugh and squeal and crawled all around it. It was like: "YEAH! Something familiar! OK! This is going to be ok!" Poor baby only got to bed after 9:30p.m. on Saturday night. He woke 3 times in the night, but settled back to sleep fairly quickly.
On Monday we had to go back to the apt. and clean it. There were also a few things Rob had left there because they wouldn't fit in the truck.
Except for the study at our new place everything is unpacked and in it's new place. We don't have pictures up and we only have blinds up, no curtains, and the blinds are only up in our bedroom and the nursery, but it's definitely livable! We are going to add the others as we can.
Rob and I were talking on Sunday evening. God did not give us this home merely so we can enjoy the home. (And if that becomes my focus I will want everything and want it NOW) God gave us this house for the same reason He does everything He does - it is for His glory. It is all because of Him and it is to Him. We desire for this home to be used to bring Him the glory and honor He deserves. We are in this neighborhood for a way bigger reason, than just to enjoy a beautiful home. We are here because of God, for God.

My hope and dream and prayer is that God would use us in this neighborhood to display the transforming power of the gospel by the grace of God; that our lifestyle, our actions, and interactions with our neighbors would pave the way for us to be able to openly share the gospel with them.

Romans 10:1 " Brethren my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation."