My family is currently visiting Southern California. My husband has been dreaming about moving here for years and now that Evan is a junior in high school, he is more urged to move out here by the time Evan leaves for college. My husband can work remotely from anywhere. He likes SoCal because the roads have a bike lane and the weather is perfect all year round for road cycling. I’m torn about this move since we both have elderly parents who will need us more as they age. Interestingly when I pray about this, it appears that God is directing our move to SoCal.

I told my husband that I’m not comfortable selling our home in New Jersey until I know for certain that this move is the right decision for us. If our parents need us I was thinking that it is probably easier for me to stay with them than drive back and forth from our house in New Jersey to their homes in New York. Traffic is always terrible and it’s exhausting to drive back and forth, taking two hours each way.

While out here in SoCal, my husband came to a Christmas Eve church service with me. I guess he wanted to sell this place to me. We went to Saddleback church satellite location nearby the hotel. It was nice. It reminded me of my church in NJ. For nonbelievers like my husband and children, they would find the church service and message non-threatening and even boring.

Why is God leading me and my husband here to SoCal? I don’t know. But I do sense that this is God’s plan for us. Fortunately it’s not happening right away and so I have some time to process this more.

During the pandemic lockdown, I watched a documentary show about the earth. I think it is from Disney plus. I’ll have to look for it again and if I find it I’ll link it below. Apparently there is a big fault-line on the California’s ocean and if this earth’s surface shifts then the experts say that much of California coastline would be destroyed by a tsunami and even submerged underwater by the ocean.

Many years ago when my children were very young, we did a family vacation to the Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas with my husband’s family. There was a lazy river there and my son was on top of me on the floating tube since he was a toddler. It was supposed to be a mild water ride that even babies can be on. As we were enjoying a calm ride, all of sudden I looked up to see a huge wave coming at us with another person on the floating tube about to come down directly on us! It happened so quickly that I had no time to think or panic. When I came up after the crash, I stood up and found that no one was hurt. My son was fine too. Even my sunglasses were found nearby me and not broken. Honestly, I have no idea how we didn’t get hurt. The lady who was crashing down upon us was big and her float was highly lifted up by the wave. I remember the lifeguards were all running towards us to make sure we were okay. Once we gathered ourselves, we even continued on with the rest of the lazy river ride.

As I have been thinking about SoCal and its coastal areas being vulnerable to this potential earthquake in their ocean; I sense the Holy Spirit reminding me about this incident in the lazy river. Whatever happens we will be okay – whether we are alive on earth or in heaven. It’ll be a blink.

When you are in ministry work, there are so many people who are sick in the church. As I see their sicknesses and pray for them, I realize that I really don’t want to live that long. There are so many aches and pains from aging bodies. It is not the worst thing to pass away prematurely by a sudden accident. For us, believers we will be with the Lord Jesus Christ immediately. That sounds heavenly to me.

Jesus: Don’t get lost in despair; believe in God, and keep on believing in Me. ² My Father’s home is designed to accommodate all of you. If there were not room for everyone, I would have told you that. I am going to make arrangements for your arrival. ³ I will be there to greet you personally and welcome you home, where we will be together. – John 14:1-3 (VOICE)

I found these in my Pinterest scrolling yesterday. I’m so happy that I’m a believer of Jesus Christ. I don’t know how anyone could be an atheist these days! Yet there are so many. I don’t understand them and they don’t understand me too. 😂

1/7/24 – Listen to this if you have time. Around minute 9. It’s about California. It caught my attention since I’m being led to move there once Evan goes to college. It’s kind of what I thought. Not a surprise but a heads up for me. https://youtu.be/FywSzKNEcCw?si=tavqaYBH_Chf5elG