This is the part of the story where fear and worry could have started creeping in. But this is the part of the story where we put faith in front of fear and we moved forward anyway.

I didn’t believe that we could just set out to create a life and what we pictured could actually exist.

But, even though I couldn’t see it, I was willing to work towards it.

What is your heart telling you to do? How worth it would you say it is to listen to that little voice inside you and take action to do what it says?

We hope our kids learn to find their purpose, and then live it. We hope they learn to listen to their hearts. We hope they learn to take risks, to be authentic, and to live life on their terms.

And isn’t that true about anything in life? You expect things to go a certain way, and it just doesn’t. You think you’ve made the right preparations, and you haven’t. You envision things going a certain way, but it goes another way instead.

Dreaming again did come with its obstacles. We had to remove all of the “what-ifs” and “you can’ts” that continued to creep into our thoughts and plans.

I wanted to say yes so many times. I remember thinking we have the time to do some of the things we wanted to do but we didn’t have the money. Or we’d have the money but not the time. It just never seemed to work out to where we had both.

Little by little, this was the beginning of us thinking more about time and less about money.

Really, this is not a story about moving to the mountains. This is a story about having the faith that could move mountains.

TAKE VACATIONS!! You can always earn more money, but you can never earn back the time.

For two years we waited until finally we had to ask ourselves, wait for what? What exactly were we waiting for?

We couldn’t come up with a good answer.

We decided to choose a place we wanted to be and to live a life we wanted to live.

We are so glad we gave ourselves permission to pursue the freedom our hearts desired.

It was in that pause that we could finally breathe and ask ourselves, how do we really want to spend our time?

We had gotten so caught up in doing so many things when what we really wanted was to just undo the mess we had created.

As we continued to work hard and reach our goals, we were praying like never before. For the first time in years, we not only prayed hard, but we prayed with each other.

I didn’t know how. I didn’t know when. But I knew I wanted to hike the snow-covered Parkway.

Here we are just a few months later.

Then we talked about what we could change. What we could simplify. How we could slow down.

We learned we had to communicate about our finances, we had to look at the ugly mess we were in, and we had to be on the same page and work together.

This is the place where we were led.

This is the house we will call home.