Baby Steps

I love the movie "What About Bob". In it Richard Dreyfus plays a psychologist who has written a book called "Baby Steps". Anyway, that is irrelevant, excepting the fact that I feel like our family is taking baby steps to our future. But, at least they are steps in the right direction. This week was funny. After waiting forever for Dillard's to get back to me about the job I thought they wanted me for Nathan and I finally gave up and decided he should get a second job. Promptly following that conversation Dillard's did call to offer me the job. Too little, too late. Nate and I had already put together our plan. He went back to a former employer and got himself hired on for some part time work. We both feel good about that plan. I'll miss Nathan though. It's lonely at night when I am putting the kids to bed all by myself.

You know, I have been thinking about this all week and I finally made the connection that baby steps are necessary. When Nathan graduated I expected huge changes to just drop at my feet. It's taken me this long to accept that God means it when he says "line upon line" or "by small means are great things accomplished". Patience with the process of reaching our goals is part of what we have to learn in this life. Most of the time, though there are some exceptions, getting where we want to be will always take hard work and patience. Otherwise, we experience very little growth.

Great things are happening. Nathan loves his day job. He is learning so much there and they are pretty nice to him. Hey, I got to say, seeing Nathan love doing the work that he put so much blood, sweat, and tears (maybe just one of those) into training to do is a gift. I want him to be happy because he is going to be paying me back for my support and encouragement for many years to come.