I'm a Jersey girl.Does that say enough about me?
Why is a Jersey girl living in Kentucky?
Remember the movie last of the Mohicans?
The year was 1992, the first time Kentucky ever became an actual place for me.I remember a dialogue between the main actor and this annoying red coat.
"So where are you going" Asks annoying red coat.
" we're headed west to "kan -tuck- ee "says long haired main character.
"There's a war going on how is you are headed west?!!!!" Annoying and now full of indignation red coat spits out
"Welllllll, "drawls long haired one."you head east and then real sudden like turn west."
Flash forward a few years. My brother tells me he is going to attend seminary in Kentucky during the fall of 2012.
Kentucky?
We're from New Jersey; home of hurricane Sandy, Jersey shore, mega malls and within driving distance of the famous New York City. Asking a Jersey person to consider even stepping across the state line is like asking someone to cut something off. You just don't do it.
But we didn't like NJ. My husband and I. We and our three young children longed for space, we wanted property, we wanted nice people to drive on the road with us. We craved less smog, more down home cooking, we wanted to shake off the extreme rules in NJ. We wanted more freedom, and lower taxes. We wanted off the rat race called jersey.
To survive, literally on the East coast one must devote a large amount of money towards housing. You have to drive, a lot. You even feel pressured into looking like everyone else. One simply does not go shopping at target without at least putting on mascara. When you
live in New Jersey.
Sure we had grown up in NJ, and most of our friends and family lived in NJ happily. We were not though, we had been attempting to escape for years without success. We are nature loving spectators, and our young children were showing the same interests.
We needed to leave.
Our family was growing and we knew we couldn't choose between raising them in a godly manner according to the Bible if we placed stuff like our house and lifestyle in New Jersey on this level of importance.
We did something crazy, we decided to follow my brother to Kentucky. In the fall of 2013 God answered our call. He let us leave NJ through the most interesting and amazing circumstances.
Pregnant, jobless, and homeless because we sold our home. We packed everything we hadn't sold or given away into a moving truck, September of 2013.
And it's here our story begins, because that is where we are starting my friend.
Kentucky.
