December 9, 2025

My husband and I have uttered these four words, “We’ll figure it out,” hundreds of times over the past month. We almost laugh when we say it now because it’s become such a theme in our lives recently.

We’ve basically up-ended our lives since the end of October. We bought a house, closed on it exactly two weeks later (TWO!!) and moved the next day. We had only begun discussing the possibility of moving and then looking at houses on-line seriously the week before we found our new home. After that we put our old house on the market — in November, right before Thanksgiving. Not the best time of year to sell a home. But yes, we received an offer within seven days. By the time we close on the old house, it will only have been two months since we began discussing the possibility of a move — and in that time we bought, moved, and sold! Yep, we uprooted our lives.

With this happening so fast, my husband and I would come across something and say, “what if this doesn’t happen….,” “Have we taken care of that…,” and so on. Every time a question or concern would pop up about something happening down the road, we’d just have to stop and say (you guessed it),”we’ll figure it out.” Because things were moving so fast, we truly could only focus on what was right in front of us. The most planning we did was scheduling movers once we knew our closing date. Then we had to pack in a hurry. And if you’ve ever moved, you know how easy it is to accumulate “stuff” in your house — especially when you have grandchildren who visit frequently. I don’t know how many art projects and games and puzzles we have due to grandkids! Plus, my art hobbies — really, how much yarn does one girl need!

Because we had to move quickly, we didn’t purge as much as we normally would, so everything came with us. The garage in our new home was stacked with a significant amount of boxes. How did we get this much stuff?! It was ridiculous, embarrassing, and definitely overwhelming.

Where would everything go in the new house?  It’s beautiful but doesn’t have great storage. “We’ll figure it out.” Where was the best place to donate things we don’t want? “We’ll figure it out.” Do you see how that phrase has dominated our lives over the past month or so.

It reminds me that sometimes we don’t need to know everything that’s going to happen. Or more accurately, we can’t plan for every little thing. As we know, most times our plans don’t work out as we expect anyway. Every day, we need to lean on God and lean into HIS plans for us, not our own.

With this move, we were prayerful, and asked God to close the doors if this wasn’t His will. And less than a month later, I’m writing this in a new house, in a new city, with boxes that still need to be unpacked. If you had told me six months ago, even three months ago, that we’d move and sell the house we loved, I would’ve said you were crazy.

But God had other plans.

This move wasn’t in our plans, but we went with it. It was frustrating, overwhelming, exhausting, and yes, a little fun and adventurous. We didn’t always know what was going to happen day-to-day, so we just kept saying, “we’ll figure it out.” More accurately, we were going to trust God to figure it out. This was all His idea anyway! The verse from Matthew that says don’t worry about tomorrow… today has enough troubles of its own — is so true.

During this move, we could only think day-to-day. Only pack one box at a time. We had to trust God for the rest. So, saying “we’ll figure it out” wasn’t a bad thing. It was a reminder that God was in control and He was charting our course. We just had to go along for the ride. And what a wild wonderful ride it’s been. Here’s to more days of staying anchored with Him, while He continues to guide our way.

Today, I do the work in front of me. Tomorrow: “We’ll figure it out.”