Getting back to it....

I know it has been ages since I have posted on here, but the past year has been somewhat of a rollarcoaster. My husband didn't have a consistent job for 15 months... during some of which he was contracting consistently for a company, the rest caused us to learn to completely rely on God in an entirely new way. I have never known my neediness so acutely, nor my Savior's love and provision so abundantly. Tyler was contracting for a company consistently until October of last year, and was under the impression that he would be put on a 2 year contract, which would have provided some stability. 2 weeks later, he was moved to a different job, and upon the completion of that task the company had already overstaffed their other contract. So, while I had mentally been preparing for some stability, God was planning for a journey. From November 2010 until June of this year, Tyler worked any individual contracts that were offered to him. He has a friend whose private company occasionally had work for him installing networks in large hotels and businesses. While the work was a blessing, it meant that Tyler had to leave (sometimes on a moments' notice) for work anytime it was offered, because we did not know when it would come again. You may ask why he would not just go get a job in a restaurant... but when he did work, the money that he made was far better, and typically made up for the weeks that he was off. However, there were many times that I would ask if he were planning on going and applying at a restaurant for a job the next day... and it would NEVER fail.... the NEXT day he would be offered a contract for work, exactly in time (this happened multiple times). This was a huge blessing, but incredibly stressful, as Ty would sometimes leave for what we thought would be 3-5 days, and end up being gone for 3 weeks. While sometimes he would come home for three weeks after that, there were times when, a week later, he would again be gone for 2-3 weeks. It was a very emotional time. Yet throughout this time, God's was working. He worked in Ty and I's hearts in so many ways. In February of last year, Tyler began interviewing with a company in a process that would last 5 months. 5 long, drawn out, months in which he still was travelling consistently. We wanted to hope, but were scared to, wanted to get excited, but didn't want to be disappointed. So we continued to trust. Finally, in June, he was hired full time as a Field Service Engineer for a company that works on and maintains servers. This company is truly amazing. The way that they run their business, the work environment that they seek to create, and the things that they value are a huge blessing. So, while we have been stressed, stretched, and strengthened, we also were then handed a job for Tyler that not only fits him well, and he is good at, but that he enjoys. Never once during those 15 months did our bills go unpaid, we learned so much of the faithfulness of God, and our walk with our Father was a close walk, grown in desperation as we sought HIM as Hope, Provider, Protector, Warrior, and Savior....