lone and dreary world no longer

well, folks, i better stop calling arizona the lone and dreary world because it will be my home in just a short while. 🙂 the past few weeks have been a monumental whirlwind but somehow things have fallen into place at just the right time. we sold a house last weekend and bought a house this weekend!!

the house hunt was crazy. we decided on tuesday that we needed to get to arizona as soon as possible to find a home. we left late wednesday night and spent the next two days seeing more houses than i can even remember. talk about information overload. but there was one. just one. that felt like me. one where i felt happy. even giddy about living in arizona. and that, my friends, was the true miracle. we placed an offer on it in the nick of time. we got ours in before a few others that were coming later that day. they accepted. we signed. and drove back home all in a day.

here it is!!!!!

again, more miracles falling into place. i had a friend at church tell me today, “you know, my husband said it seems like the masks just expect miracles and so they happen.” i was taken aback by her comment. who me? i was very appreciative of such a thoughtful comment. yet i pondered it all day long. i can definitely say that my life does not work like this on a regular basis. but then i started thinking, why couldn’t it? just like we expected to see miracles out there on the streets of Spain. of course, i do believe that we must experience the bad along with the good. but i also believe that we can have the “but if not…” attitude. which to me in a nutshell is excercising the faith in God that he will deliver us or grant the righteous desires of our hearts but still trusting in Him even if it doesn’t turn out the way we planned.
i love this quote from that talk: “Men accomplish marvelous things by trusting in the Lord and keeping His commandments—by exercising faith even when they don’t know how the Lord is shaping them.”

so true.

for now, i will just acknowledge His hand in all of this. and record all these experiences so i can look back and remind myself. somehow i know my finite mind might forget this when challenges seem unbearable.

and with that i will end with a phrase jeff has been longing to hear, “yes, babe, i am thrilled to be living in arizona!”

(you can pick yourself up off the floor now, hun!) 🙂