Blessings

My wife and I have been reminded about God's love through the process of selling our home in Ohio.  When we first put it on the market I felt that it would take awhile to sell, but that everything would work out.  As time passed the reality of having a vacant home in Ohio became more real.  As my wife and I continued to pray and fast that our home would sell I continued to feel at peace that everything would work out in proper time.  A week ago we finally received an offer on our home.  The offer was very low, so naturally we counter-offered.  Again, I felt the peace that we had felt before - that everything would work out.  The peace continued even when our agent was told that the prospective buyers were near their financial limits (which was much lower than we would accept).  I am prone to worry and fret about things that I can't control, so I know that the peace we felt was from God.  On Thursday of this week we were notified that our counter-offer was accepted!  We are very excited and anxious to close this chapter of our life.

Through this experience I am learning several lessons:
1) Trust in spiritual promptings even when logically things don't make sense.
2) God's perspective is much different than our own.  The feeling that everything would work out has been true, although not what I expected.  For example, we will not have the return on investment for the home that we desired (or think we deserve), but our home has been safe and protected through one of the coldest winters on record.  In addition, my job has provided more than enough income for us to live with two mortgages.  So has everything worked out?  Absolutely.
3) God allows us to be stretched to grow.  My faith in receiving personal answers to prayers has grown through this experience. 

So for people going through difficult times - turn to God and trust in him.


A link to our home is shown below for those interested.

http://dayton.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll