OK I just realized that I need to back waay up for you and fill you in on some of the stuff that had been going on with us prior to the offers on the business. Kris is a very artsy craftsy person, she loves to sew and make Christmas ornaments, and
entertain and all that kind of thing. I can remember shortly after we moved here, Kris and her girlfriends all getting together rather routinely at each other’s homes. Not to sip tea and talk about the ills of our society but to sew. They would each bring their sewing machines and set them up at the kitchen table and “whir – whir, yak, yak, yak, whir, whir, whir, yak, yak, yak” while they made everything from quilted jackets to purses.
Now, fast forward a few years to 2003 when we bought the business; not long after that, I noticed Kris’ stress level increasing. Oh, it just goes with the territory; it makes sense that you take on the ownership of any business, your stress level is going to go up. As the business grew, her stress level got higher and higher and higher, time spent with girlfriends eroded and boundaries became more and more blurry . . . Ok, many of them just evaporated. I began to notice a lot of physical ills that I believe were tied to here high stress level. A big (and happy) part of Kris was gone. She worked and went to church; we went on trips but . . . with a cell phone pasted to her ear. I started praying for her and what God had in store for us and the next chapter of our lives. We both knew that God has a purpose on this earth for us, not that we weren’t fulfilling part of it with the business. But, we both felt like God has given us so many gifts and at this season of our lives we simply weren’t using many of them. We just had this innate, inner feeling that there is more . . . just simply more to life than what we were doing. I am convinced that as a result of the prayer we came closer and closer to hearing God and what his will was for us. We truly spent a lot of time, seeking God and His direction for the next chapter of our lives
. As we prayed and grew closer to Him and more able to hear His voice we began to understand more and more of His plan for us. We prayed to let God know the desires of our hearts but also that those desires would be in alignment with his will for our lives. Does this mean that by praying this way that we are able to change what God may have had in mind for us? Perhaps, I think that what has really been going on is that through this process of listening to God, the desires of our hearts changed and morphed into something that is more what He has in mind for us.
entertain and all that kind of thing. I can remember shortly after we moved here, Kris and her girlfriends all getting together rather routinely at each other’s homes. Not to sip tea and talk about the ills of our society but to sew. They would each bring their sewing machines and set them up at the kitchen table and “whir – whir, yak, yak, yak, whir, whir, whir, yak, yak, yak” while they made everything from quilted jackets to purses.Now, fast forward a few years to 2003 when we bought the business; not long after that, I noticed Kris’ stress level increasing. Oh, it just goes with the territory; it makes sense that you take on the ownership of any business, your stress level is going to go up. As the business grew, her stress level got higher and higher and higher, time spent with girlfriends eroded and boundaries became more and more blurry . . . Ok, many of them just evaporated. I began to notice a lot of physical ills that I believe were tied to here high stress level. A big (and happy) part of Kris was gone. She worked and went to church; we went on trips but . . . with a cell phone pasted to her ear. I started praying for her and what God had in store for us and the next chapter of our lives. We both knew that God has a purpose on this earth for us, not that we weren’t fulfilling part of it with the business. But, we both felt like God has given us so many gifts and at this season of our lives we simply weren’t using many of them. We just had this innate, inner feeling that there is more . . . just simply more to life than what we were doing. I am convinced that as a result of the prayer we came closer and closer to hearing God and what his will was for us. We truly spent a lot of time, seeking God and His direction for the next chapter of our lives
. As we prayed and grew closer to Him and more able to hear His voice we began to understand more and more of His plan for us. We prayed to let God know the desires of our hearts but also that those desires would be in alignment with his will for our lives. Does this mean that by praying this way that we are able to change what God may have had in mind for us? Perhaps, I think that what has really been going on is that through this process of listening to God, the desires of our hearts changed and morphed into something that is more what He has in mind for us. 
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