November 19, 2009

• Well, that’s going to take a lot of prayer!!

  My husband has a job prospect.  It’s working on a farm milking cows and doing other chores.  Just what he enjoys and has done for all of his life.  The pay is decent, who can fuss in today’s economy or when you have been out of work so long?  There is one thing that is making it difficult for him to just come out and say “yes!”  One thing that requires prayer and a bit of thought before the decision can be made.  The job would require that we move. 

  My husband has lived in this house for all his life.  This land is his heritage that he literally suffered and sweated upon for his whole life.  This move wouldn’t mean that we would have to give up our farm, although we are selling it to the older boys.  But it means that we won’t be living on this farm.  We won’t get to wake each day and look out on the fields and trees that have been their for all of his waking up.  It means that when changes take place or work is done on this farm it will be without him.

  Don’t get me wrong, my husband is not a controlling man, not by any means.  But he is an involved man. 

  The farm that he would be working on is about an hour away from here.  That is a bit excessive for him to commute twice a day.  He has a health consideration that should keep him from doing too much driving, especially after working hard all day long.  Remember farmers put in 14-16 hour days.  He brought up the possibility of him living in the tenant house six days and then coming home to be with us on the seventh.  He was voted down.  What a way to separate the family, and totally unnecessary.

  The house is offered with the job so that isn’t the issue.  I guess the issue is just making the decision to move than doing it.  But what a decision!  And so the rest of us try to put the face of adventure on everything so that he doesn’t sense the turmoil that is inside.  We try to lightly brush off the things that we would have to give up should we move, as if they are inconsequential.  In short, we try to encourage the man and help this decision to be as unencumbered by our emotions and angst as possible.

  St. Joseph, help this man to make a decision that is pleasing to God.  Give him guidance and love as he embarks on a new adventure in his life.   Amen.

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