It's Ours! Part 2

Read Part 1 Here.

~It really is amazing how God can work in such quiet, yet amazing ways that if you don't pay close enough attention you don't even realize He had His hand in it all along.~

It's Ours! It is really ours! I'm typing this blog from the kitchen of our new house. Here's the story of all the God things that happened in the process of us getting this new house.

On March 31st as my mother happened to be driving past the house, she saw the sign go up in the yard... remember we'd been waiting and waiting MONTHS for the sign to go up and she just happened to see it the moment it happened. She immediately called me and told me. We called the realtor and he said we couldn't get in yet. Well then our realtor, my Aunt Brenda... who is amazing by the way, called and convinced him to let us in that night. So we got in to the house that night. It was perfect. Just perfect. sigh.... I knew the list price was probably way too expensive at this point. Brenda then told me that the list price was yet to be determined. She figured it would be around $225,000. There was NO way we could do that. We drove home with such mixed emotions. We loved it, but knew it probably wouldn't happen.

My mom came and looked at it with us. When she arrived home she got a call from my grandma in Virginia. I had talked to my grandma about the house when they visited in September and also at Christmas, but I hadn't spoken a word to her about it since then. She called mom just to ask if Andy and I had heard anything about the house. She had been praying for us and was thinking about it... God moment? My grandparents are two of the most spiritual people I've ever known. I have no doubt their prayers had a hand in this whole situation, along with the prayers of many others- thank you all.

The next morning I woke up and got a call about the price... much lower than we'd expected... $160,000. Brenda was shocked, as were many other realtors in her office and in town. There was no explanation for the price being so low. I truly believe God has his hand in this as well... he wasn't going to give us more than we could handle. We had to move fast to make an offer. Other realtors in Brenda's office had clients making offers which meant many others in town probably did as well.

The timing of the house going on the market was perfect for us. Back in September when we'd gone to the courthouse stairs to try and get it, the time wasn't right. It would have been a real stretch for us financially... no matter the price. The house went on the market just a few days after we'd gotten back our tax money and built a bit more of a savings cushion. We were in a much better financial situation now, then we were back in September. God knew we couldn't afford it back in September.

We had to have an inspection before we could make an offer. So just two days after seeing the house we had a friend of my parents come and do an inspection on the house. It was a yucky cloudy day, but while we were at the house the sun came out and shined for a while. Everything just felt so right that day at the house. Also, while we were there I noticed one yellow tulip growing in the backyard. I know it was spring, but this was the FIRST tulip I'd seen this spring. It was beautiful. Also this day I noticed the flowers and the hummingbird on one of the ceiling fans in the bedrooms. I knew if we got the house, that had to be Luke's room. Sure enough it was the one he wanted. :)

For some reason, we decided we wanted to go to Town Square Bank where Andy's cousin is the VP to talk about how much we could finance. We could've gone with the bank our current mortgage was with, or gone with financing that our realtor's guy could've gotten us, but Andy felt we needed to go with Town Square. I told my parents the name of the guy Andy was going to meet with at the bank and they knew him from church. The banker knew exactly the type of financing that HUD (who was selling us the house) would want and we qualified. I am so thankful that God lead us to go with Town Square instead of our other options. I feel very sure that because of the way Mr. Burton did our financing, our offer was accepted.

Some other small things- Andy's parents knew our neighbors', the man was the father of one of Andy's dad's groomsmen. The church we were married at is now behind the fence in our backyard. Each time we came to look at the house the neighbor on the other side would come out and talk to us... it all felt so comfortable.

Throughout this whole process I truly believed God was calling me to this house, I just knew he wanted us here for some reason. I had dreams about the inside of the house before we saw it, and when I went it the house for the first time it looked a lot like it had in my dreams. Throughout this process I prayed a lot... praying for God's will to be done, not necessarily for us to get the house.

I remember waking up the day we were supposed to find out which offer was accepted. I woke up really feeling at peace... either way. I knew God would take care of us and if He wanted us at the new place we would be at the new place.

My mom called me and said, "Do you think we got it?" I said no. The she screamed, "YOU GOT IT!!" So exciting. She explained there had been a higher offer than ours and one right near ours, but ours was accepted... God moment again. I remember feeling a calm peace when she told me. When we got off the phone I just cried. I knew God wanted us to move and He had taken care of it all.

God gave us this house and we will do His will with it whatever that may be. We will use this house for whatever He has in store for us. Thank you God for this wonderful blessing.