Prayer Requests

I heard about this family from a friend of mine.  I don't know them, but I have kept up with their blog for the last few days.  I don't know why their story has hit me so hard, but I cannot stop thinking about them.  I have held onto my boys very tightly since I heard about this family...especially today.  I think that the family could use all of the prayers they can get. Please look at their blog.  www.half12.blogspot.com

There is another family who needs prayers.  The dentist who my sister works for lost his wife this week.  She was struck while jogging by a hit and run driver, and they did not find her until the next day.

After hearing these stories, our problems seem miniscule, but I would like to ask for prayers for our family also.  We are currently waiting to see where we will be moving this summer.  It is nerve wracking to know that you are moving in a few months and to have no idea where you are going, but it is also exciting to see new places, and it makes us sit back and trust God. When Matthew joined the Coast Guard, I resigned myself to the fact that we would never be able to move back to San Antonio and just hoped for Corpus.  Matthew has applied for a job in San Antonio at Lackland Annex.  At first we just put it on the list because it was in San Antonio, but we thought that there was no chance of getting it because it is a Cryptology job, not Engineering.  Now that we know more about the job, it turns out that Matthew is eligible for the position because it is a new program, and they are pulling people from other programs to start this new one.  Long story not so short, there is actually a chance that we could go back to San Antonio.  We will not receive official orders until the middle of April, but hopefully they will "pencil us in" somewhere soon.  There are good and bad points to the SA job, but it is too much to go into now.  There are also several other places on our list where we would really like to go.  If we go somewhere else, that would be fine, but I would really like to know something soon.  I am asking you all to please pray that God places us in the right assignment for Matthew's career and for our family.  Please also pray that we hear something soon and that I learn to have patience and faith as we wait.  Thanks.