Recently we revisted the whole moving thing(remember my dream house a few months ago and the near listing of our house?). We found a few houses in which we were really interested. Common theme with them? Space--a huge yard with space and trees around us instead of a crowded neighborhood and a spare room for a music room where Carter can rock out his guitar without waking up the little boys. We don't want a big, fancy home or lots of land to care for. We just are tired of our cookie cutter community with tons of cars on the street and no trees.
After driving by these 2 houses a few times and even snooping around the empty ones, we contacted our realtor. These houses had been the market for months! I'm talking prices dropped several times and listed for many months. Literally, within a few days of our interest, both houses got a contract on them. Then, Mike found 1 more on Zillow that he really wanted to see. It suddenly had a contract and it had been for sell forever. So, we realized that God was closing the door on our move--for now anyway. I just happened to be reading through Exodus and Numbers the past 2 weeks. It struck me that the Isrealites only moved location when they saw God move.
Exodus 40:36-37
In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out--until the day it lifted.
Clearly, we weren't supposed to move. Mike and I realized that we'd dug ourselves into a bit of a debt pit and God had not released us yet from this home, get out of debt first!
In the meantime--until we are released to move, we are learning contentment AND wondering if there is someone we are supposed to reach out to in this neighborhood. What a shame if we'd missed that opportunity!
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