It's been a hot minute since I've posted....and this is why: We have moved. Yes, we have moved. If you need a background story, you can see previous postings on my blog about moving houses and leaving the new one and being sad and so forth. This blog is gonna be on how God's timing is right on, and slightly humorous.
We've been praying for the sale of our home for - oh gosh, a total of probably 4 years. We have had a contingent contract on it for about a year and nine months with a sweet couple who were facing the same predicament as us: wanting a different home, but stuck in a crappy market. So, here I am - you know, 6 1/2 months pregnant - thinking about starting a nursery, brainstorming and whatnot - when I get a random text from a friend telling me that she gave our mutual friend my phone number bc she was gonna text me with some news. Uh. Did you follow that? Kinda vague. Not sure if they want names shared or not....so, anyhoo, friend number two texts me and tells me that her and her husband have a contract on their house. Wha? Wha? What? Seriously? Yes. So, what emotion do I go to? Y'all know me!!! Denial!!!! I'm not believing it for a minute. I had lunch with my Dad and we were discussing possibilities and I kinda got frustrated and all uppity acting bc I didn't think it was going to happen until August -and that just wasn't gonna work bc we're having a baby and blah, blah, blah. Cue my whistle text message sound. They wanna close in 2 weeks. Ha ha ha. I laughed. My husband laughed. My dad laughed. Thanks, God :) I still operated on denial for about another week. I thought it would "jinx" it if I packed a box. I love denial. It works so well. Not.
Along about last Saturday, I figured out that I needed to get my head outta the sand and into the game - this junk was happening! So, we boxed and boxed and moved and chunked and shoved and ordered a second pod and house hunted and thought and talked and crunched numbers until we found a rental (that will be ready between July 15 & August 1) and we moved to P & MTs house where there's a party 24/7 :) In our last moments at the house, I felt myself feeling slightly nostalgic & asked my sane, low emotioned husband if he wanted to have a few moments alone with just us and the house. He looked at me as if I had lost my marbles and gave me a quick hug and walked me to the car. He's such the rock of the family :)
I love God's timing. It's funny. I so find myself realizing that it is His goal for us to rely, rely, rely. That's where a lot of my unfaithfulness stems from, so I feel like these situations occur to remind me. I really have been so sane throughout this! When I get scared or upset or confused, I remember that He told us in His word in Matthew 6:26 - Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than
they?
Then, duh. Yeah. He won't leave us hangin'. This is part of His grand plan for us. So, it's much easier to find a way to give Him the glory and to chuckle at the circumstances than to be a mean basket case. So...that's where we're at. He is providing for us. It's all gonna work out :) Maybe not exactly as my OCD self would have orchestrated, but if I'm running it - then I'm not having faith, right??
That's our story!!! :) Love to everyone from the debt free, homeless girl and her sweet homeless family! At least we don't have to pay a utility bill from cooling off in this heat!!! Ha ha ha!!!
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