The Hunt

In Colorado there is tons of hunting! Yes, there is also a "save the planet" group of people, but they don't compete with the hunters. Well we have found our way into a different kind of hunting. Clothes hunting to be exact. Its just so hard to know what all you need for snow, occasional blizzards, and whatever else is going to come with Coloradan winters. Some how every time we go shopping we find great stuff for Stephen, but I always walk out empty handed. But not today! When Stephen left this morning to go  to an OMM review seasion (Whats OMM you might ask... find out here http://stephenandhannahzerlang.blogspot.com/2010/09/day-in-life-of-wife-of-do-wow-now-thats.html) I took off to the Park Meadows Mall... which just happens to be less than 15 min from us and absolutely beautiful and has tons of great shops. I won't tell you how much I spent, but it was so great! (don't worry I didn't get into triple digits, we are on a med school budget here :). I finally found a warm wool pea coat that fits, and three warm sweaters, one of which was wool! It was a jack pot day!

It is an absolutely beautiful day here. I am bogging from our porch because I just couldn't help but be outside. It rained this morning and now its breezy and sunny, probably in the low 70's. I decided that today officially started fall because I had my first pumpkin spice latte of the season, and oh boy, i forgot how much I love those babies! I don't know what it was, but drinking that just made me realize its fall!

On a completely different note, I started bible study this week with the ladies in our church. I am so excited about it! We are studying Jonah... and going in to it I had no idea what else we were going to dig out of that small 4 chapter book, but holy cow, there is so much to learn. This week we focused on how God interrupted Jonah's life and call him to a hopeless place. So often we consider interruption as being a bad thing because the person or the need is insignificant compared to what we are currently doing. But when God interrupts, its because in his divine knowledge and plan, he has something so much greater for us or other people he is calling us to serve and sacrifice for. If we really think about who is "interrupting" our life and our plans, it should not be something we are frustrated about. But so often in my human mind I find myself asking why God is doing what he is doing. And here we are in Colorado, missing family and friends back home, transferring nursing schools, and it would be so easy to view this season of our lives as an interruption, but only if we forget who lead us to this place of "interruption". God has great and wonderful things for us here, and in the last two months we have already experienced so much of his blessing. We are continuing to grow in our relationships with our friends from school, which has been just amazing and so much fun! We are getting planted in the church we absolutely love and are so excited to be apart of! God has blessed me with a job that is wonderful and very flexible! Stephen just finished his 7th week of med school!... and the list goes on and on. So in conclusion, I will challenge you as I have been challenged. What has God put in your path that seems like an unneeded problem, a distraction from "important" things? And would you join me in looking more to the one interrupting us to see that He is unimaginatively much more important than "our plans". 
Much love to all!