My husband and I were chuckling at God this week, as the boys mom who was set on course to move up here to hang out with us was derailed by the inability to get out of her townhouse. We made little comments about God’s timing and how all things work together for his good. Basically we were glad to see someone else’s life get shaken up for once, you know since lately things have been going so well for us.
Never, ever get hoighty toighty in the presence of your creator. He tends to make sure that you get paid back for comments like that, you know since he runs the existence of everything and all.
So our comfortable little existence, with our pretty new Explorer that I am in love with, our beautiful little boy, our great families, etc, etc. Got shaken up about two weeks ago when I saw a house for sale on the realty website I check out up here. It was out of town, but only about 20 minutes, in a small town something I was crazy in love with the idea of. It was a little house, and I loved it.
Needless to say I obsessed about it. I drove through the town, scoped out the neighbors, etc. etc.
We decided that we did want to buy a house, we talked to a million mortgage companies, enlisted the help of a Realtor that goes to our church.
Then we heard a sermon today about God’s detours, joined the financial peace class, heard from one person we should rent, heard from another we shouldn’t, and generally went to bed tonight feeling our heads spin.
We saw three houses yesterday, one of which we really liked but needed considerable work, and four today, one of which should God permit we will probably be putting an offer on. It’s a small house, in a town about 30 miles out of the cities. One that is Waukee - esque in the fact that they are putting in highway interchanges and expect the town to start booming in the upcoming years. It’s been completely remodeled, and just screams that we should live there. But timing, God’s timing over rules everything, and while the ability to receive the credit to buy a house isn’t the issue, the interest rate is. So we’re looking to God to answer some questions when we work with the financial advisor/mortgage broker from our church (one of my friends husbands) and figure out what we’re really looking at.
We’ve been so excited. If nothing else we’ve provided with an oppertunity to dream. Upon some further research we realized that staying at our church may not be possible. It’s amazing how comfortable you can get and yet momentarily all that could be changed. It’s exciting and scary at the same time.
So who knows what will happen.
The Feeb is getting his six month shots tomorrow, and the boy has the day off. THANK GOD. I hate shots, and so does feeb.
Soon to come Feeb’s letter for the last two months. It’s been busy, but it’s about to slow down again I think.
