My New House!

Back in April, Brad and I went to look at a house for rent in Beech Grove. Before Brad and I started looking at houses, we had made a "list" of characteristics we wanted in a house. There was the list of stuff that we "wanted" and the list of stuff that we would settle for.

When we looked at the house, we immediately fell in love with it. It was an older house, built in the early 1900's and had "character" - it wasn't a "cracker jack" house, built like all the other ones nearby - and it was in a great neighborhood. It had most everything off the "want" list - like 4 bedrooms, a basement, a front porch, a garage, and a fenced in back yard -and only a few things that weren't - 1 1/2 baths instead of 2, no dishwasher. It didn't matter about the two things it was "missing". We were sold. We wanted that house. We put in an application for rent.

It wasn't too long after that we received the news: the landlord had chosen someone else to rent the house - our house. We were devastated. But we accepted the fact that it wasn't God's will - or timing - and started looking again.

On Tuesday, June 16, I came out of an exam room with a patient and headed to my office. While the patient used my phone to call for a cab, I stepped out of the office to return a page. The page was from my husband with "911" behind his number. I immediately panicked and called him back.

When he answered the phone, his voice was quiet and shaky. My heart was pounding and I felt sick to my stomach. What could possibly be wrong? I said, "hey, baby. What's up?" He said, "Did you get my email?" I said, "no, I've been in with a patient and haven't had time to check it. Why? What's up?" And there was quiet on the other end for what seemed like an eternity. Then he said, "we got the house." My heart stopped. After no response from me, he said "the house in Beech Grove. The current renters have to break their lease. We get the house." I didn't know what to do. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think. I began to cry.

We will be moving in after the first of July. The contract will be written with the option to buy.

When I thought God said, "No" the first time, I thought it was because He had something better in mind. I didn't realize he was actually saying "wait." If we had gotten the house in April, we would have been out a considerable amount of money: we would have had to pay rent to our current landlord for our apartment in addition to the deposit and first month's rent to the new house. Now, we'll only be paying the deposit and first month's rent on the new house.

God's timing is perfect and God is good!!