TGIF is what we lived by at the Green house for about a year. As many of you know Daniel has been working for a wonderful Christian company in Jacksonville called Collins Builders. He has been very happy working for them but the one catch was that we were still all in Macon! We have been very thankful for a wonderful job that God blessed Daniel with shortly after being laid off from his job in Macon, GA...especially in the state of our economy. We had faith that everything would be fine after all we have been through in life we know that God never leaves our side. That doesn't mean it has been easy though this past year. We truely can say we really looked forward to Fridays...this was the day that daddy came home or we drove down to see him. The weekends never seemed long enough though, but we were thankful for that time. This was true QT time for us. Well we said that 6 months was going to be our deadline that "something" would have to happen that either he move back or we move down. During this whole time we have had our house on the market...no serious prospects though. Well the 6 month mark came and went and we continued to look forward to our Fridays and shed a few tears on Sundays. This was hard on all of us...the children especially but hard on Daniel and I as well. I will have to say we learned SOOOOO much during this time. I would start to list them off but I would probably have to write a novel then :) Lets just say we have Gained So much from this time and it has made our family that much closer and our marriage that much better but most importantly our faith in God that much stronger!
Months 7, 8, 9, and 10 passed by and we finally decided after much prayer that we need to take the next step. Daniel, the children, and I have been praying very specifically for our family to be together...but we just coudn't understand WHY this was not happening yet. WHAT did God want for our family. Did Daniel have to come back or what? It didn't make sense on paper and our budget for us to just move down their and for us to have 2 house payments. Why couldn't God just sell our house!!!!! We would go through periods of frustration...but all along we knew God's timing is perfect and that if we were praying for His will He would care for us and provide for us. We heard a couple sermons actually more than a couple but they all started having the same message to us....TAKE that LEAP of FAITH!!!!! God is challenging us to do this...How BIG is your Faith???? We can't just keep on praying for the same thing unless we plant the seed...a good example: you can't pray and pray for corn unless you take some action..plant the seed. Well I decided to try to get a job in Jacksonville (again) this time I had some interviews lined up and I was offered a job on the spot. The job seemed great, I would be teaching for the summer childrens program at Primrose School (a great school) right across from the elementary school Madi and Lawrence would be going to (also a great A+ school)!!! Still numbers didn't add up b/c of the cost of childcare but we decided to trust God that he would provide and we were SO excited about getting the family together again. Just to show how important this is to the children Madi's first response to us moving was, "YES, I am so excited because Daddy gets to tuck us in again at night". They love their Daddy and so do I.
We found us our townhouse down here, not to big but the perfect location and again we are together so it's HOME to us! We then got the news that I had a friend who was interested in renting our house in Macon....Daniel and I prayed about this and have been praying for an answer so we were very thankful and thought this Must be God's answer to us. BUT we were still a bit uneasy about this. I had talked to our wonderful realtor, Anna Roberts, by the way if you need a realtor She is the BEST!!! Love her!!!! and she said it best you have to pray about it and do what is best for your family. The market may not be as good next year but do what you need to do and pray about it. Daniel and I still thought, we can't have 2 house payments we need to just rent it, it would be a tremendous help right now....
This past Friday we drove down to Macon to Pack Pack Pack and Clean Clean Clean to get the house ready for our rentor! As we laid on our one mattress left in the house on the floor...I told Daniel I just am so nervous I don't feel like we are doing the right thing, did he feel like we were rushing into things as well? He did feel the same, but said we don't really have a choice at this point we already told the lady she can rent it besides the house has been on the market for a year it's not like we have an offer or anything.................I agreed and then felt a little bit better about it. We woke up and moved all furniture left in the house into our basement (because we were going to store it there while it was being rented out)...Guess who called our realtor with a bit of news for us. She told us that their may be someone interested in offering on our house to HOLD off on renting...WHAT?????? COULD THIS BE???? she then called the other realtor who showed the house to the interested couple. That realtor said they were interested in another house...so we kinda sighed and continued doing what we were doing. Daniel then went to get some alergy medicine for me when I got another call from Anna...I had just got done praying and I told Daniel to be doing the same thing...Our Prayer was if we are not supposed to rent out our house....don't let it happen let us know!!!!! Not even a full 24 hours before having a lease signed for our house to be rented WE got an OFFER on our house!!!!! Anna said the couple from California wants our house (which was not their original first pick). NOW if that is not in the HANDS OF GOD and GODS PERFECT TIMING...I don't know what else it could be. GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!! Please put All your FAITH in HIM and He will BLOW your socks off!!!!!! We close on our house on July 7th....Please continue to pray that everything goes well. I know we are and we trust God that He has a wonderful and perfect plan for us. He has prepared us for something Big and we are ready.
Thanks for taking the time to read this...and I will try to get a bit better on updating what is going on in Jacksonville FL :)
Sorry for the long post but I just HAD to share God's wonderful work....We owe it all to Him and give Him all the Glory! We thank Him for using people to show how wonderful He is!
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