Well…. Hello again!

It’s been a couple of months. It’s been a quiet couple of months. We’ve spent the last 8 weeks or so recouping and resting, not really worried about what’s coming next. Life has slowed down for us a lot.

From my last day in ministry up until the last week of January, I did not work. I got really invested in my plants & “adopted“ a fish. Do you adopt fish? I don’t know. Regardless, I got really into plants. I wouldn’t go as far to say that we have “to many” plants… but we definitely don’t have room for any more…

Anyways, beyond plants our little family grew by 4 cute little paws as well! (No babies yet…) Just a few weeks ago we adopted sweet little Mabel June from a rescue here in Colorado and we love her so much! She fits perfectly into our family & Franklin LOVES her.

She loves everything food related, has to take naps on blankets, and is afraid of loud noises. (we’re working on that one still.) But we love her & are so glad that we were able to give her a forever home. Here are a few pictures of Mabel June:

Besides plants, fish & puppies Tessa and I both started new jobs! Tessa started her’s in December with a nonprofit here in Colorado Springs working remote with their Interdisciplinary Team. I am also currently working with a nonprofit on their marketing team.

We are very thankful for these positions and honestly just thankful to even have jobs in 2023! And I want to take a few minutes to express some thankfulness right now. Because I really am so thankful.

Leaving a place I called home for so long was a scary thing to do. But it was the right thing to do. These last couple of months Tessa and I have been able to really slow our lives down, spend more time together, laugh more, enjoy date nights & day trips and even begin a house hunting journey!

It’s so clear to me that this is what God had for us right now. And I’m so thankful. We’ve been able to find a really great church on the north end of town that is exactly what we need right now. We’ve been able to actually sit in church together, worship together, go home and talk about the message, and spend time connecting in a way we didn’t get to before. Did I mention before that I’m thankful for this? I think so.

Listen, I don’t know what’s next for us. I don’t know what our future looks like. But I know that we are in such a good place. Such a healthy place.

Thank you so much to everyone who has prayed for us or reached out to us.

Now, if you’ll stick with me for a few minutes I’d like to share a few thoughts…

In what turned out to be a very transition filled and life changing beginning to the new year, I learned something about myself. I’m a little afraid (anxious, nervous) of change. Even small changes I get this nervous, excited feeling that I don’t feel at any other time.

And I can probably corelate that to a lot of situations and circumstances from my past, but I think what it boils down to is trust.

We all know what trust is, but it’s defined as a “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability or strength of someone or something.” And thinking back to what got me to where I was up until recently. It was a lack of trust.

We get into this motion of not feeling like we can trust others so we have to maintain control. And in that control, we lose grip of what’s important or what’s needed from us. And it causes us to burn out.

I can honestly say that this is where I was.

Tessa and I were face to face with changes that required us to trust each other, trust our instinct, trust our finances, and most important trust God. Trusting that He had a plan for the direction of our lives. And as I mentioned before, we still don’t really know what direction He is going to take us, but I can guarantee that we are going to Trust Him through Change.

And you can too. Listen, we all experience major life changes or circumstantial changes at some point or another. Sometimes for the good, and often times for the not so good. But if we allow ourselves to be caught up in the fear of change and trust, we’ll never act! We’ll never take that next step because we’re to afraid of what the outcome will be!

Folks, there were many times during the last 1-2 years where I was afraid to change because I was afraid of what the outcome would be! And it lead me to this place where I wasn’t being who God called me to be. And I can stand here now to tell you that these changes have made me better, Tessa better, our marriage better… our life better!

I’ll always be thankful for where we came from, for the incredible things we got to be apart of. But that time in our life is over, and that’s okay! We’re trusting that God is leading us through this change. And you can, too.

With love,

Andy Davenport

P.S… I’ve taken a break from social media since Christmas and I’m not sure when/if I’ll be back. I forgot how much I enjoyed writing in this format rather than endlessly scrolling Facebook & Instagram. (I still have TikTok, I’m not perfect.) So check back here periodically for updates! I will still post these blog posts to Facebook, but that’s it.

Alright, bye for real this time!