Hey everyone! I guess ready or not, here I am because my finger accidentally hit the live button.
But, hello everyone! It has been a very long time, I feel, since I've been on here.
And I just want to turn the camera around for a second and show you what I am enjoying at the moment.
This is my back patio.
And the sounds are so peaceful. I love hearing the noises of nature.
So anyway, I'm going to try and make this quick, but it's going to be really hard because it's been our journey for the past year, I feel like.
But, you guys, we are at our new house that the Lord has brought to us and given to us.
And it's been an extreme gift and an extreme testament of His love to me.
I told Josh that this literally feels like...
Moving into this house has felt like a bride coming home as a newlywed.
Like, that's literally how I feel, but in my relationship with the Lord, not to Josh, which sounds really weird.
But, oh my goodness, you guys. So, the story is way too long to even put into words.
But, the moral of the story is that God is far more eager to give us good things than we even realize.
And He is way more loving than I ever, ever in my whole entire life imagined to be.
And the past couple months have been so immensely healing in my personal life that I literally don't have the words for it.
My health has completely improved.
My stomach issues are gone. I'm no longer suffering from migraines.
I have literally never in my life felt so good physically or more safe in my relationship with the Lord.
And it is just incredible how everything has worked out.
But, I just want to tell you a little bit of the story.
So, we had land that we had under contract last fall.
No, it was early this year. Long story short, that fell through.
We're house-sitting for a family that's down in Haiti.
That has been, like, a complete answer to prayer and has enabled us to not be homeless for the past five months.
So, they were going to come home, like, basically six weeks.
Or, no, they were going to come home a month before we would have had closing on the house that we have now, that we own.
And we were like, oh dear, we're going to have to find another place to live for a month.
And we don't really know where to go or what to do.
You know, we've moved so many times and we have half our stuff in storage, half our stuff at the house we're living at now.
And it was just like, what are we going to do?
So, we get a message from the people that were house-sitting.
And they asked us if we would be willing to extend our stay to house-sit for another two months.
So, we were completely covered with a house up until we were ready to buy this one.
But the craziest thing was, is that I remember in all of this house journey and all of this crazy stuff,
I just remember telling Josh that I don't know why, but I just have this feeling deep down inside that I can't shake,
that the house that God has for us is going to come to us.
And as a child of God, I don't have to go out and strive for my provisions.
I fully believe that they're met and that it's just a matter of waiting until the house that God has for us comes across our path.
So, and I remember it was to the point where I almost felt like if we would go out and look at a house and buy a house that was on the market,
it was almost like, it almost felt like a measure of unbelief or disobedience to me.
And so, I remember, you know, telling, I remember, we remember talking about it, but still, you know, we'd continue to look at homes and all that stuff.
But one day, we got the call from our realtor that said that they have a house that needs to be sold within 24 hours.
So, basically, this random couple called her office and was like, we need to sell our house within 24 hours.
We just got an accepted offer on a house we want to buy, but it's contingent on us getting rid of our house.
Like, we don't know what to do.
They said that the house isn't ready for showings.
The house is like totally not market ready.
You know, it's not like the landscape is done, all that stuff.
Here's the price.
If you guys find a client that wants it, they can have it.
So Josh and I go that evening and it was it.
It was the house, we knew it.
We knew it 100% that this was the house
that God had for us.
It was much more out of our price range
than what we had originally wanted,
you know, thought would be responsible or possible
and just all that.
And I remember thinking like, wow,
like when God gives you a good gift,
it's been really terrifying for me,
wondering how we're gonna maintain this gift
that God's given us.
And I just keep thinking like,
no, it was a gift that was given to us
and we don't have to worry about how we're gonna keep it.
Like God is gonna take care of us.
God is gonna keep it for us.
He's gonna make so we can make our payments.
But the crazy thing was we came
and we instantly knew that this was the house for us.
And I mean, it is decked out, you guys.
It is far surpassed as anything
that I would have ever dreamed or ever thought.
Like it has a sauna.
It has a sauna, like God gave me a sauna, ow.
Also mosquitoes, I'm getting bit.
It has a sauna and it has a pool.
Like it's off the road.
There's a couple acres so I can have my garden,
my animals, you guys.
Like it literally has everything that I've ever dreamed of.
But it had many twists and turns
because after we had a verbal agreement on this place
and we were agreed everything was good,
the people that were selling their house to this couple
that sold their house to us,
those people backed out and totally took another offer.
So the people that were selling us this house
were like completely screwed because they didn't know,
you know, their house was gone
that they had originally wanted.
So anyway, we were like,
oh, we're never gonna doubt God's goodness.
Like he gave us this house.
We're never gonna doubt God's goodness.
Like this is amazing.
And then the next day we get a call
saying everything fell through.
And we're like, God, why are you not good?
Oh my goodness, oh, talk about a rollercoaster.
But you guys, it is a complete miracle that we are here
and that I am sitting on this porch
that you can hardly see me on.
But I just wanted to give a little update
and say that we have a home
that God has provided abundantly for us.
And I am so grateful.
I'm so grateful for this past year
and what it has all entailed for us.
It has been by far the craziest,
most transitional year for us ever.
We had a baby, we changed churches, we changed jobs,
we changed houses multiple times.
But it's just been amazing to see where God has brought us
and how good he's been to us.
So anyway, I just wanted to give you all a little update
and check in and say hi.
So I hope you all are doing well.