That's how long it took to get here. I can promise you that for most of that time we wondered and questioned if we were doing what God wanted us to do. We cried, yelled out in frustration, questioned God, begged God, begged our friends to pray, just about everything you can think of to do if you want God to answer your prayer. The biggest news in our family since the last time I blogged is that Elias graduated from the APD Police Academy on Friday! It was an amazing ceremony and I can only describe the feeling I had when I pinned his badge on him as amazing. Leading up to the actual pinning I kept telling some of the other wives that I just felt like I was going to puke, I was so nervous walking up in front of everyone. But the moment he got in line and held his hand out to me it went away and all I had left inside me was pride. I am so proud of my husband. He did 8 months of testing, academically and physically. It was hard for him from the beginning because testing academically just isn't his thing. And if that was not enough, he stayed faithful to God's call on our lives to be foster parents. Two months into the Academy
we accepted a sibling set of 3 kiddos into our family and though we only have 2 of them with us currently, it definitely added to the stress he already had. But he did an amazing job, at the Academy and at home.
Now, we settle into life. When he was still in the Academy, we had a little countdown to graduation. On the last day of the countdown it was weird knowing that we wouldn't be counting down to something ending anymore, but instead just be moving forward. It's been interesting to say the least. He worked his first shift last night and he had a good time, came home and slept for most of the day and then went back out again today. While he doesn't have to study as rigorously as he did before, he still pulls out policy and procedure manuals to make sure he knows them 'just in case'.
In the time it took Elias to officially be a police officer I can honestly say that my walk with God has gotten stronger. When we first started this journey I would have told you that I trust God and that I seek Him with my life. Shortly after we started this journey I doubted God's goodness and I didn't trust Him. I didn't trust that His promises to never leave or forsake us (Joshua 1:5) or that we would be blessed (Deuteronomy 28:2) were actually for us. I seriously doubted because things weren't going our way. Or at least, going the way I thought they should go. But God, being faithful and omniscient, knew that I would not get to the point I am at today without enduring some trials that would push me to Him (James 1:2-4). Thank You God that You are God and I am not.
Anyway, I think I'm going to buy into the blogging thing and start doing Thankful Thursday's.
