God's Other Plan

Last August we were all set to pack our things and move to a new house, but things suddenly changed when the buyer of our house terminated his offer at the end of his option period. We were frustrated and disappointed, but kept our house on the market believing that God still had another plan. We then welcomed our new little Skylyn and decided to take our house off the market to enjoy her and the holidays. Well, believing in our hope in God and His plan for us, we put our house back on the market in March. We had a lot of activity, but no offers until about 2 weeks ago. That weekend we had completely disassembled the two kid's rooms and the kitchen to neutralize them. We got a call right in the middle of priming and painting to have a showing. I asked them to come another day, but the man would be flying out the next morning and wouldn't have another chance. It's funny because I had always laughed that God would show me that He would sell my house, not me. Well, that was definitely the case because every other showing my house was perfectly clean, but this time my house was a wreck. Only God could sale a house looking the way ours did at that time. The man came back about an hour later to see it one more time. That night we suddenly saw an amazing house in our home search email update. We asked our realtor to show us the house the next day and she agreed. As we were getting out of the car our realtor, Melanie, said she had received a call saying we should be expecting an offer from the man that viewed our house. We then walked into the most perfect house for us. I was on the verge of crying feeling God's power at work. He had designed a plan for us that was better than we could have done ourselves. His timing was perfect. Every other house we had liked always had one of us compromising something we really wanted in a house or location. Not this one. You know, we had prayed and prayed that God lead us to the perfect house for us, and He did!! It's exactly what we both wanted. Unlike any other house, Aaron loved it and so did I! We had been praying hard about our house situation for quite some time, but that week we were in overdrive. I must say thank you to those few that we called upon to pray with us! But, I must admit that even with all the anxiety of hoping everything would work out this time, we both felt a peace and confidence in our hearts that we had witnessed God's plan and power first hand and that, really, we had nothing to worry about. By the end of the week we had accepted an offer from our buyer and had our offer accepted on the house we wanted. As of midnight tonight we are in escrow on both houses. We close on our house on May 28 and close on our new home on May 29. We have a lot of packing to do, but it will be a joy knowing that I'm moving to a house God hand-picked for us.