Introducing our new house!
We close on September 30th and couldn't be more excited. I am already decorating it in my head and planning what I'm gonna cook.... if I can remember how.
The best thing about this house isn't the brick, the extra 500 square feet, the extra room that will be used as an office, the back yard, location, or open living area...... It is that God has been completely in control of everything that had to happen in order for us to get this house.
If you have been reading my blog, you are probably sick of hearing about our house in Arkansas selling. Even as I read some of my earlier posts I was a little embarrassed about how it has been mentioned every time. I guess that just shows how it has been consuming my mind and life for the last ten months.
BUT, no more my friends! Here is the story of how God moved:
Nate and I decided that we had been saving all this money for our whole five years of marriage and we are gonna spend some and take a trip. So, we went to the Bahamas, of course, and promised each other that we would try not to think about the house while on our relaxing vacation.
As the week went on it was hard, but we didn't think about it too much. I just knew in my bones that we were gonna have a message from our realtor when we got back to the good ol USA. Especially because there was a lady that had been talking with our realtor everyday and he said he hoped to have something in writing when we got back.
So, in the Dallas airport Nate checked his two messages. One was from a man named Brian that saw our house on Craig's List and wanted to see it. The other was from our realtor here in OK that was about to list our new house for way under market value and thought we would like it.
After calling everyone back, I convinced Nate to call our realtor in AR , cause I knew that he would have good news for us about this lady. Forget the Craig's List call. But again, there was no news to report. I was.... uh distraught. That's a nice word for it.
I felt like our realtors in AR have just been messing around with us and I just knew something was going to be done after our trip, but no.
To say that my heart was a rock is no understatement. I have been totally cold about the house thing since about month 7. I had tried to take God out of the picture and was starting to place blame on our AR realtors and Nate. I have never been as down in my life as I was the Friday we got the call about the Craig's List Brian wanting to lease our house.
I am not usually one to voice my opinions, and mostly rely on Nate to make our decisions.... So even though I was reluctant about the lease to own option, Nate strongly felt that this was our answer. Then, with the promise of a contract coming, we called our realtor here and went to see some houses.
He showed us our new house first, and all of the others were junk compared to it. We slept on it and when he took us to see it again I didn't want to leave. Nate and I felt great about putting in an offer. While we were sitting in the house Nate got the email with the contract for our AR house.
Since then, everything has been smooth sale-ing... ha. The buyers for our house in AR have given us an actual contract to buy the house with a early occupancy addendum, and the first months rent already. They are serious about getting some credit so they can be financed in less than 6 months and putting extra money in escrow every month. Our new house here passed inspection with flying colors, and is move in ready.
Now we are just waiting on our financing and everything should be signed for and done two weeks from today.
I didn't even realize all the tiny details that God worked out until I started to write in my diary. Think about it. Nate had two messages when we got back from our trip... One ended up being from the family that is buying our house, and the other ended up being about our new house. The family here could have gone with any number of realtors to sell their home, and they choose our realtor out of OKC. We got the contract for our AR house while we were writing a contract for our new OK house. His timing was just amazing. And, our realtor here, Christopher, thought of us when he saw our new house.... he hadn't seen us in 10 months.
Who says God doesn't answer prayers? Sometimes He just let's you wait. And in this case he had us wait so we could bless one family with a house of their own, and another family who needed to sell their house quickly. And so that we could have this wonderful house that we will be able to call "home"
Those words have never held so much meaning, or sounded so sweet.... "Home Sweet Home"
We are beyond grateful for all the prayers and support from our family, friends, and church family. It has been a rough 11 months and we don't know where we would be without you.
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