He will direct your paths...

By the time I had gone through my journal (starting in May of 2012 ) I had a stack of index cards an inch and a half thick!  The Lord had been using dreams, Scripture, impressions during times of prayer, conversations with other believers, and even headlines in the news...to prepare my heart for the greatest step of obedience I had ever taken...

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The Lord had certainly directed us toward Orkney, but a crisis of belief ensued.  We spent countless hours online, looking at homes all over Scotland...from the Borders in the south to Orkney in the north.  We were also faced with the dilemma of what to do with our current home!  It was hard to imagine leaving...

Built on the Benston homestead, still held by family, selling was not an option.  We began to pray for the Lord's leading in finding a family who could live there.  This home had been a blessing for us, and we prayed that blessing would be multiplied.  It was our son, Drew who first mentioned a young family in his church.  We had become acquainted with PJ Tangedahl through our café, the Oasis.  A worship pastor at a local church, he and his wife had two children of their own, as well as foster children.  Their oldest daughter, Anna would soon be too old to share a room with her brother Zack.  They would need to find a larger home, or stop doing foster care..

We invited PJ and his wife Mandy to have dinner with us at a local Indian restaurant.  After visiting for awhile over samosas and pakoras, Henry began:
     "You know the Lord is leading us to leave the U.S.  We have been praying about what to do with our home.  God has put you on our hearts.  We are wondering if you might be interested in renting it." 

PJ's mouth dropped open.  A few moments of silence followed.  Then he shared, "I have never told anyone this....not even Mandy, but a few months ago I had a dream.  I dreamed I was standing in your living room and I somehow knew that I lived there!"  Not one given to dreams...we were all astounded by how the Lord had gone before...preparing PJ's heart, just as He had prepared ours...

"Whether you turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear
a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it.'"
(Isaiah 30:21)