jllm04
08-06-2008, 08:14 PM
Jeremy,
I was reading your latest blog entry, and I tried to post a comment, but I never can, some error always pops up, and tells me it can't find typepad.
Typically I won't mess with it past that point, but today it was just to piognant.
I've had a string of not so great days, on and off for 11 weeks now.
My husband took a job in Midland,tx, and for 11 weeks we've been searching and searching for a home. It's about 2 1/2 hours from where myself and our daughters are, and so there has been the driving back and forth, lots of boo-boos that I have been told would be ok when "daddy got home" knowing that would not be for several days, the ups and downs of house hunting and an assortment of other things. Things were looking up, we were supposed to be closing on a home this coming friday, and the bank apprasial came back significantly lower than the agreed upon price, and they just would not come down. Feeling some red flags going up, we both felt like were to back out of that house deal. I really was confident that God already had something else going and we were to go and find it, so yesterday our two young daughters, myself and my mother loaded up and with high spirits, headed to Midland.
Needless to say, it was a frustrating day of house hunting, not feeling led to any of the 10 homes we looked at. (if you had been there, you would understand why, I'm not that picky I promise! :) Except 1. And it's one that we looked at 5 weeks ago. I liked it then, but John wasn't so sure, so we moved on. Well, of course now, it has a contract on it with a contingency that the prospective buyers sell their home first. So, we made an offer anyway, only to find out that the prospective buyers home went under contract today. It's not closed on yet, and we well know that anything can happen. So, we'll see... We are not ones to try and buy a home out from under someone else, but our realtor assured us that we had every right to make an offer, and that when someone puts that kind of a contingency on a home they are well informed and privy to the fact that this very thing could happen.
So, your wondering what this has to do with the aformentioned blog.
I have been praying that we would allow God to place us where we needed to be, this move wasn't on our dockett of things to do anyway, so realizing that this was something God wanted us to do, I have tried to not have my hands on it because of the very thing you mentioned. (I will, inevitably, mess it up!)
But the word completely stood out to me, and I realized I was trying to control things again. It was just what I needed, I don't know any other way to say it. But thank you for reinforcing how hard it is to leave things in His control, and to ignore other influences! (my mother for instance, and other well meaning people...) We are faced with the possibility now, that our oldest daughter will not start this school year in Midland, something I was determined to not have happen. I enrolled her in a school here in Abilene today, just to be prepared! There are days I wish God would let me in on His plan, just a little bit! Oh, and days I've threatened to email Him a school calendar just incase He'd somehow forgotten when school started or just how long John and I had been living in seperate towns. (ha ha, I know...)
But thank you again, I SO needed it!
Lana :)
God bless you and each of the band members (and families), and can't wait for the new album!
I was reading your latest blog entry, and I tried to post a comment, but I never can, some error always pops up, and tells me it can't find typepad.
Typically I won't mess with it past that point, but today it was just to piognant.
I've had a string of not so great days, on and off for 11 weeks now.
My husband took a job in Midland,tx, and for 11 weeks we've been searching and searching for a home. It's about 2 1/2 hours from where myself and our daughters are, and so there has been the driving back and forth, lots of boo-boos that I have been told would be ok when "daddy got home" knowing that would not be for several days, the ups and downs of house hunting and an assortment of other things. Things were looking up, we were supposed to be closing on a home this coming friday, and the bank apprasial came back significantly lower than the agreed upon price, and they just would not come down. Feeling some red flags going up, we both felt like were to back out of that house deal. I really was confident that God already had something else going and we were to go and find it, so yesterday our two young daughters, myself and my mother loaded up and with high spirits, headed to Midland.
Needless to say, it was a frustrating day of house hunting, not feeling led to any of the 10 homes we looked at. (if you had been there, you would understand why, I'm not that picky I promise! :) Except 1. And it's one that we looked at 5 weeks ago. I liked it then, but John wasn't so sure, so we moved on. Well, of course now, it has a contract on it with a contingency that the prospective buyers sell their home first. So, we made an offer anyway, only to find out that the prospective buyers home went under contract today. It's not closed on yet, and we well know that anything can happen. So, we'll see... We are not ones to try and buy a home out from under someone else, but our realtor assured us that we had every right to make an offer, and that when someone puts that kind of a contingency on a home they are well informed and privy to the fact that this very thing could happen.
So, your wondering what this has to do with the aformentioned blog.
I have been praying that we would allow God to place us where we needed to be, this move wasn't on our dockett of things to do anyway, so realizing that this was something God wanted us to do, I have tried to not have my hands on it because of the very thing you mentioned. (I will, inevitably, mess it up!)
But the word completely stood out to me, and I realized I was trying to control things again. It was just what I needed, I don't know any other way to say it. But thank you for reinforcing how hard it is to leave things in His control, and to ignore other influences! (my mother for instance, and other well meaning people...) We are faced with the possibility now, that our oldest daughter will not start this school year in Midland, something I was determined to not have happen. I enrolled her in a school here in Abilene today, just to be prepared! There are days I wish God would let me in on His plan, just a little bit! Oh, and days I've threatened to email Him a school calendar just incase He'd somehow forgotten when school started or just how long John and I had been living in seperate towns. (ha ha, I know...)
But thank you again, I SO needed it!
Lana :)
God bless you and each of the band members (and families), and can't wait for the new album!