A Different Road To Travel

Cropped Remember Wow! What do you do when you get hit with a situation you weren’t counting on having to deal with?

How do you react? Where do you go? Who do you turn to? What?!?!??? Are you kidding me?? I had the opportunity to experience this yesterday. I didn’t have to ask those questions because I knew who I needed to turn to! But I can’t say that my reaction was without feeling. However, I was rather numb after last night’s phone call. Next, I was ticking off the points. What does this mean for us? Here is the dilemma: our sale contract on our current house has defaulted. No sale one day before closing. My thoughts? My word for the year came to mind…Remember.

There are so many thoughts that I ticked through in my mind over this situation. What does this mean for our other house? Can we pull this off? We are starting this whole process over after working so hard to meet deadlines. We are exhausted and we are going to start all over again? Where’s the lawn mower? Oh yes…it’s at the BACK of one of the storage units! Laundry without a washer and dryer? We better move the food and a few items back into the house. How long will it take to have a secure offer? At least we have a new air mattress! Random thoughts as my mind races for answers.

Getting the idea? This is not just inconvenient. It changes everything. Everything. I can’t even really process it. All I could say today was, “You know God. You are in control. There has to be a reason. There is, right?” Let’s be honest here. I want to trust with my whole heart. Not give in to emotions. But there is no doubt that it is hard. As I put things back into the bathroom so we can use it, and items of food back in the pantry, I still have to tell myself that. Minute by minute. We were advised to put it back on the market right away with the market being even better than when we first listed the house. We are looking around at our house that hadn’t been cleaned well since starting the hard part of moving out. Show someone our house right now? We said ok. We are IN! Then, just a few minutes after our house was listed again on the market, an offer came in, two calls for showings and away we go! We will see what the weekend holds for us. The blessing? We can ask more for our house with this listing than the last because of the change in the market. God knows…

So I approach the next few days with careful watch on my feelings because they can get me into trouble. I heard Laura Story’s song today as she sang about all the hardships we go through and the tears we shed, being what draws us closer to Him. Yep! Ok God. There is my answer. I will do my best to wait on your intervention; whichever way that should go. We aren’t new on the block of trials, so I press on toward the mark. Face the “new” in our journey and ask God to give me grace. Sound good? It is our only answer. The only one.