The houe delima

See the house up above--that was our house we bought back in 1995. We have been trying to sell it since January of 2008. In September last year we decided to step out in faith and go ahead and move back to our home town that John and I grew up so we changed our listing from "for sale" to "for sale or lease". Well God provided a buyer the very day we picked up the keys to our new fabulous rent house. God is so faithful to provide! The people who are buying our house were transferred from another state and the mans company is suppose to buy out their house. The buy out has taken forever and it looked like everything was going to go through so we put in an offer on this house......Way back in November and it was accepted with a scheduled closing of December 1, but the buy out for "B and C's" house has not gone through as it's been one delay after another. The builder of our house that we want to buy has been very patient and has kept pushing everything back month after month. Everything looked like we were going to close tomorrow despite the fact that" B and C " still haven't had their house bought out yet. They got a letter from the buy out company stating they would buy their old house and cashed out their 401K to pay for closing cost and everything was a green light until this morning.

The rug feels like it has been pulled out and once again I'm reminded that Satan has come to try and steal, kill ,and destroy, something from us. This morning "B and C" got devestating news that they couldn't close with the mortgage company they had planed with and was preapproved by over four months ago. They have to look for a new mortgage company and pray they get financing.

In the mean time the fabulous model home we are renting has been sold and we will have to move in 2.5 weeks so we need PRAYERS!!!

Please pray for favor for "B and C" to get financing ASAP
Favor for us with the builder of our house we want to buy
And that it all gets done ASAP so we don't have to move to another rental and turn right around and move again in a month or two!

Moving is extremely hard on our youngest son,Braden, as he had just moved with his foster mom the month before we came to Korea to take him home. He was 18 months old at the time we adopted him and so remembers very well that moving means losing the only mom you have ever remembered. When we moved to our rental he had a difficult time so we really only want to move ONCE!

Where to begin?

Should I start from the beginning or begin from where we are at now? Either way the journey to now was and is filled with the hope of God, His grace and mercy,and most of all the everyday stumbles from me as I try hard to walk by faith. My hope in starting a blog is to show that everyday, ordinary people can be used in profound ways as it only takes a willing heart. Even if you never feel you have impacted the world just you being you can change a life for the better. God has promised us that we would dwell in a land of more than enough but most of the time we are trying so hard to get to "this land" that we go through life never realizing we were there all the time.

If an outsider where to look at my family they might say-you are drowning in a sea of debt with no hope of ever getting to the surface but I would say all you were seeing was the bank account. That is only a small tiny part of us. To many times people define who they are by what they have or what they can get but to me money is only a temporal thing and yes I wish we had more of it but I wouldn't trade what we do have for one dime! John and I never thought we would be where we are after 25 years of marriage but sometimes life takes you to places that give meaning to you that you never thought you had.

25 years ago we thought that once we got here we would have raised most if not all the kids we would ever have, have a house nearly paid for and be ready to ride off in the sunset free from most responsibilities.We thought we would be taking long expensive vacations, indulging in activities that we thought would give us joy and have ooddles of money to spoil the grandkids with. 25 years ago we thought it was things and being free from responsibilities that would be the life we wanted, but here we are right in the middle of starting our family over again with our two young sons we adopted from South Korea, selling one house that was more than half paid off and buying another - having to start the 30 year mortgage over, self employeed with no saftey net and right in the middle of Gods perfect will for our life!! This journey has been a very hard one at times and so easy it didn't feel real at others. We have both gotten older,sometimes we have gotten wiser, but we can truthfully say we have gotten more blessed along the way---no matter what the bank account says!