Encouraging

It was a particularly hot day in Dallas, and I was driving around the city looking for an apartment. I had just graduated from seminary, and my wife and I needed to move from the condo we had rented for four years. I had resumes scattered throughout the country but was getting no response, or rather I was getting the same response—“No.” Lori and I thought we would be looking for a place to live in a new city, but instead, we were staying in Dallas. It was a discouraging stretch of my journey.