By Natalie Earl
In the fall of 2019, I had been impressed to begin getting up when I woke up to study my scriptures and talk with God. I committed to getting up when I woke up and discovered during that time that God has a sense of humor because sometimes, I would wake up at 3:00-4;00 in the morning. This one particular morning I had awoken at 3:30 in the morning, so I got out of bed and started my morning ritual of time with God.
The house was quiet and the world had not quite woken up just yet. The stillness of the earth and darkness of the hour created a special space for me to receive revelation from God and as the information came, I was shocked at what I had just received.
I had been told that I needed to work on decluttering because we would be moving from our current home. We had purchased our home four years prior after my husband’s grandparents had passed away. It was a home my husband grew up coming to and had always dreamed of owning. To my husband, this would be the last house we would ever live in. He dreamed of living in this home until all of our children were grown and we would live the rest of our lives in it. I told God that if we were to move that he would need to let my husband know because he would never believe me.
God let me know that I would need to inform him of our conversation and that we would be moving. I waited until my husband woke up and I went into the bedroom to tell him what I had experienced earlier that morning. He told me that he wasn’t moving and that what I had received from God could have just been a coincidence from the scriptures I had been reading.
For the next several years I would do what I could to prepare myself and my family for a move that would likely come. And as I discussed it with my husband it would continue to turn into an argument about moving. As the years passed, more and more experiences transpired, and my husband’s heart changed to where he realized that moving was in our future, however, the contentious discussions continued whenever moving was brought up.
I began to be discouraged because I felt like God had given me the revelation for a reason, but never gave it to my husband. Even if little by little his mind and heart would change about the subject, I still felt discouraged and wondered if we had missed our opportunity to move. I kept wondering why God hadn’t let my husband know since he had let me know that it was what we needed to do. And how he could receive the same revelation I did for our family. There were even times I felt that because I was a girl receiving revelation for our family was not something a female could receive. It was a very discouraging and hard time. This lasted for about seven years.
One week my husband and I were taking a vacation as a couple and we started listening to the ‘Hidden Treasures’ book as we listened, we pulled into this valley that felt familiar and we both mentioned that we liked the area. For the first time in seven years, I felt peace about moving, and the worries of missing the opportunity to move had dissolved, my husband and I were able to have a conversation about moving without arguments, and we both recognized that the time would come when it was supposed to happen. God was directing our lives and we could see that he was preparing us still for the move that he had let me know would be coming. He had been preparing my husband on His timing and it brought peace to my heart.
I am not sure that we will end up in the valley we drove through, but the experience of feeling peace about talking with my husband about moving our family was life-changing. We have not found the home we will be moving to just yet, but learning to work with the laws of success instead of working against the laws has brought peace to our conversations and helped me to heal from feeling not heard.
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