So before, in IL we always wanted to be self sufficient and self reliant. We loved our Jesus, and we thought we were serving Him. As a matter of fact, had someone tried to tell me that we weren't doing all we could for the Lord, I would have given them an ear-full!
However, that said, and if anyone remembers God had been telling us for over 2 years that He wanted us to do something else and we weren't listening. We said, nope, he's been at this job for 9 years! The health insurance! The vacation time! The 401K!!! Our house, our garden, our fruit trees, our barns!!
Well fast forward to the months after The Man lost his job and we really started to figure out what it means to trust in the Lord. See before, we wanted to trust God and we thought we did, and we probably did, just not enough. The job was our security, the health insurance and the home. That isn't where true security comes from!! True, peaceful security comes from our Heavenly Father and NOWHERE else.
God led us to Montana, which was a fantastic adventure, and then He led us back to KY. After being back in KY for a year and living next door to The Man's sister, we were praying hard for a place to call our own. The bankruptcy made it impossible to get a mortgage and it looked as if we were a long way out from our own place. We prayed and looked, and looked and prayed, and none of the houses we looked at would work out. We went to the bank, they told us to get a credit card to rebuild our credit.......ah, no thanks! There was a little house trailer for sale about 2 miles over from where we were living. It was on the highway and looked pretty run down. We must have driven past it dozens of times and saw the for sale by owner sign. We would say, no, we don't want it, it's on the highway, it's too small, too old, too shabby, whatever. One Sunday before church, I was looking on C/L for places for sale by owner. That little place was on there with some pictures of the inside. I thought, hmm, I could make this work! We decided to email about the ad and lay it all out on the line. I sent an email asking if they would consider owner financing with a generous down payment. Off we went to church........and when we got home there was an email from the owner. He said he would do an owner finance and would we like to look at the property that afternoon? We met him over there on Sunday afternoon and to our surprise the little house trailer came with 3.2 acres of land! We stood in the driveway and talked to the owner for over an hour, mostly about God! He shook our hands, told us he'd never done an owner finance before, but said he felt that it was what he was supposed to do! We closed on the house, signed papers at his attorney's and took possession that Thursday, 4 days after first looking at the place.
It is amazing how things fall RIGHT INTO PLACE when you are truly where God wants you to be.......
Until next time........I remain yours in Christ,
