I have so many things to say, yet speechless all at the same time.
My dear friend Tara put it well: This is a total 180, haha, and that is typically what happens in your life before you do something. Otha moving back from Morocco, having a baby...I have to say that I kind of love it. I know it keeps you on your toes and sometimes you don't love it, but that's what living in God's plan is about. Him, not us. And His plan always turns out perfectly. Like marriage and Asher.
Amen Tara, I could not have said it better myself.
Like I said a week ago, we were looking into going overseas. Monday, Otha came home from staff development day at the new high school excited about a fresh environment if we end up staying. I must confess- that was confusing. Otha is excited about maybe staying here. I am at a place where I could move. So Tuesday, we got a pretty clear answer from the Lord that we are not going to participate in the opportunity that was in front of us to move abroad. This made us pay more attention to Otha's revival of patience with living in Bryan.
Like I said a week ago, we were looking into going overseas. Monday, Otha came home from staff development day at the new high school excited about a fresh environment if we end up staying. I must confess- that was confusing. Otha is excited about maybe staying here. I am at a place where I could move. So Tuesday, we got a pretty clear answer from the Lord that we are not going to participate in the opportunity that was in front of us to move abroad. This made us pay more attention to Otha's revival of patience with living in Bryan.
While this is all happening, Otha sees a house for sale right down the street. $55,000 my friends for a 4 bedroom, 2 bath foreclosure house. We laugh about how crazy it would be if we bought it. Then we laughed about how crazy it would be if we passed up an opportunity to see the inside of a huge house for such a cheap price. Friday we meet the realtor at the house and it happened to be sold the day before. No big deal, move on with our lives, right? No. Seeing this house inspired us to look at other foreclosures in the area. Foreclosures are on housing websites. Housing websites have other houses on them that are not foreclosures. Thus we found ourselves looking at non-foreclosure houses.
Saturday we ventured out with little man and my parents to look at some of the houses- all of them were terrible. So later in the afternoon, my gracious parents stayed with Asher while he napped and Otha and I set out to conquer the rest of the list. Before we drove away, we prayed that God would just make it so very obvious to us whether we should buy a house or not. The first house we came to we adored. Both of us. If you have not gotten a clue about how big of a deal it is for Otha and I to love the same thing at the same time- IT'S BIG. Everything about the house, the yard, the attached apartment, the neighborhood, just made sense to us. So I gave the realtor a call just to see if we could schedule a showing this week. "You are at the house right now? I will call my assistant to come meet you and show you the inside."
I will spare you details of how we adored the inside just as much as the outside. Adored.
Blah blah blah looked at the rest of the houses on our list, hated them blah blah blah.
"Should we seriously consider buying this house?" <----- our conversation the remainder of Saturday. We both felt peaceful about it, not intertwined with my normal emotional response to situations.
Sunday, the teaching at church hit super close to home for both of us. It reminded us that we should be filled with the Spirit, not fear. You should just listen to the teaching. Seriously. http://comchurch.com/Home.aspx
I was fearful of commitment, if we spent money on the house not having money for adoption, etc...
Otha was fearful of never leaving Bryan.
Moving forward towards buying this house was moving forward in giving our fears to the Lord and following the Spirit in obedience to where God has us.
Today we were pre-approved for a loan and put an offer on the house. We are waiting with peaceful hope. Sweet, peaceful hope. I cannot express to you the relief that comes knowing you are walking in obedience. Sure, we will be disappointed if our offer is not accepted. But more than that we will walk away either empty handed or with a house key knowing we are free from our fears and God has used the past week to free us. Praise God, for He is so, so good to us.
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