Flight to New York
Chapter 4…
That Tuesday we had made flight reservations for Syracuse, New York. They were for Friday of the same week to minimize time away from work. I couldn’t believe what I was doing but truly felt like I had no choice, that I was being pulled to New York. While we already felt like we would be moving soon, it still appeared like a spontaneous weekend getaway. The rest of the week would be spent learning about the family farm, trying to decipher the signals we were receiving, and packing for the weekend.
We were interested in making sure we were on the right path and not led by youthful delusions. We spent a lot of time before Friday flipping through scriptures, seeking some sort of answers. Right away we ended up in the New Testament and read chapter 11 of Hebrews. It starts with “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith certainly would be required if our intuition was correct and we were on the path to a completely different situation. The chapter continues, recounting numerous stories of miracles accomplished through faith. Many verses screamed at us, as if they were written just for us as we contemplated our next moves.
Verse 8: “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.” Yeah, that’s about how we felt.
There were many other places we turned to in the scriptures. Each place had another nugget of wisdom that seemed to apply to our situation and the big changes that awaited us. To some, flipping to a random scripture that really stands out would be a coincidence. I consider it another small miracle. Each day, we would flip through and read to eachother, say prayers together and meditate, hoping that if we had something that we should do, that it would be clear in our minds. Each day we had similar experiences. We found more and more examples of faith and miracles. With no clue of what we would see at the farm or the feelings we would have, we left for the airport early Friday morning.
The Big Move