How do you explain God's call?

It's been difficult for us since we have been home when someone asks "What brought you back to Michigan?"

We give the expected answer of bringing Riley closer to family, followed by God called us to ministry so we came back till God tells us what our ministry is going to be. These are both reasons why we came back and they are very good reasons to move for sure.

What is hard to explain is that God told us to go back to Michigan. Period.

He told us "Go to Michigan, I have a purpose there for you."
We asked "What purpose?"
And He answered "I'll show you when you get there."

We knew that He wanted us for ministry but did not know what that meant. There had been an interview with a church in Michigan that we thought for sure that God was calling us to and wanted us to be ready to jump into that position. To our surprise that wasn't God's purpose. Then we liked another church that was looking for a youth pastor, visited and talked to the pastor and thought for sure that was God's purpose-but it wasn't. And still there has been nothing that has indicated what ministry God has for us.

But we know, without a doubt, that this is where God has put us so that He can use us in ministry. We feel very much like Abraham when God told him to pack his tent and set out. Abraham did not know where he was going or what was waiting for him. What he did know is that God knew, and that was all that mattered. This is a hard attitude to maintain when God doesn't meet our earthly expectations for timing and creature comforts. But He never promised that. So, we wait for Him to reveal His prefect will in His perfect timing.

For
All
I
Trust
Him

People look at you like you are a crazy person when you have left a good home, job, and community and moved 2,500 mile across the country for no other reason than God said so. Without a job to go to, or a place to live when you got there and no idea where you were supposed to go.

How do explain that to someone who has never had that kind of call placed on there hearts? How do you convey that you aren't crazy for following God despite the looks they give you? How do you show the greatness of God when you are homeless, jobless (fyi: not anymore), and have a child that you can't afford food for? How do you not look like a crazy person? So, we give the more simple and more widely accepted version of why we moved back to Michigan.

Would we have followed knowing it was going to end up the way it has? Would we have, knowing that it would last longer than the few weeks we first expected? Would we have jumped knowing we would have no income for 2 months while we waited for in interim job to pay the bills? Would we have left knowing that we would have to wait on God to reveal his purpose? Honestly, I don't know, which just proves more that God knows our hearts and how to make us move. He knew that we wanted to follow His will for our lives. So He called us trust Him and to be in the center of His will...in the middle of Michigan in the middle of winter.