Hi everybody

I realise it has been a long time since I have blogged, but I have been trying to keep up with you guys and I am grateful for your friendship here on Mindsay.

However, I would like to ask that you pray for the future of my family and me.  My husband has heard that his factory, Autoliv, which is a seatbelt manufacturer, will be moved to Mexico before June next year and that everyone will be, slowly but surely, laid off. 

Although many of you have heard of a lot of our ups and downs, my husband has always had a quiet and calm faith that the Lord will provide.  He has always been faithful in his giving and generous to those in need and did not even start frantically looking around when he heard  the winds of change blowing a while back.  He said that when the time came, the Lord would provide for us and that he was not leaving the sinking ship until they asked him to leave. 

This being the case, though, the other day when they had this meeting, he immediately told those in the Human Resources Department that if they wished him to transfer, that he would go anywhere they sent him.  And do you know that it looks like they are going to transfer him, along with the same job he is doing now, to Utah, where the parts needed in the US will be housed, and he will continue to liase with the Mexican company, as has been his job for the last while.  We are not one hundred percent that this will be so, but they have said it is in the works. They are willing to pay expenses and to pay closing costs on a new house....

So God is great and greatly to be praised....

BUT I AM VERY NERVOUS AND AFRAID TO LEAVE MY CHILDREN, MY PARENTS, AND EVERYONE CLOSE TO ME....and I covet your prayers.

The church we will attend will be one of about six in the whole state, of our churches, and is a missionary church with only 20 members, who need "seasoned" help.  I know this is the Lord giving me a final push in the right direction, as I have been first, backslidden and then sitting on my laurels for a long time...and this is a direct opportunity to use my talents and callings for the Lord's use.  But I have straddled the fence, or just hidden in the background because of the ridicule of the so called church, that it is a very scary venture for me to be thrown back into the work of the Lord, altho I know I have been utterly miserable and unfulfilled, not doing what I was supposed to do.

So this is my lengthy plea and cry.  Please, friends, ask God to give me not only peace about it, but that I will have EXCITEMENT and SHEER JOY over the prospect.  I am really excited already, but apprehensive as well.  My two children still at home will have to grow up and get an apartment together in the meantime, but I know will be okay.  And our house will have to sell.  Please pray concerning all of these things, and I will give God all the glory and honor for everything he does in this regard.  I do want to make a new start in a whole new town with new faces and no one to judge me for what I WAS....

I pray that some of you read this and respond, in Jesus' name.

Thank you in advance.

Bonniegirl.