Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Are you there God? It's me, Tiffany.

Ok, so yesterday I said we were starting a not very important house search. We had an appointment with a realtor at 6:15 to see a "foreclosure". The pictures online were cute but I didn't have an expectations.

The house was cute - needed some basic fixing up - paint and floors were the main things to start with. It would also require a new bathtub and 2 new toilets - nothing just hugely major. It has about 600 more square feet than what we have now and it was a great little house in a great neighborhood.

Ok, so before we go on this house hunt Garrett and I both prayed about it. His main prayer was if we found something we wouldn't get in over our heads - that we would be wise and sensible since this wasn't a necessary move. My prayer was for God to send us a sign if this was the right thing to do. I am the type to get an idea in my head, get excited and go overboard. I just wanted a sign, something to show us if we should do this.

Around 4 yesterday, after Reese woke up from his nap, I was giving him a bath. The house was a wreck - I had our laundry scattered here to there, Reese had his toys everywhere and our luggage was still out from our week away. The doorbell rings. I usually think nothing of it - it's ALWAYS the crazy neighbor - why would today be any different?

It was a lady in her 50's - 60's asking us if our house was for sale! I mean, I didn't specifically ask God for a sign that clear - I thought I would be looking for a subtle hint about moving.....but wow, when God delivers, He delivers. I don't really think you can be any clearer than that, can you?

Basically she was searching a "For sale by owner" website and turns out the people we bought it from never took it off, so it appears to still be for sale. She asked to see it and will be coming back on Wednesday night to look at our house!

I am still just in shock at how this all happened......

1 comment:

Leslie Ruth Petree said...

What an awesome God thing!

If y'all decide on that house and are looking for someone to do some repairs/redo, let me know. That's basically what my self-employed husband is up to these days :)

Also, I looooooove that you apparently are checking blogs as much as I do ;)