Creativity

For her birthday, Charis wanted paper and tape.  So with her birthday money from Nanny, I got her some on Saturday.  She has been busy ever since.  It is amazing what she creates!  Although we couldn't decide if she was a Storm Trooper or the Flying Nun with a lance?!?

Learning a Few Lessons

This has been quite a week for me. I am learning a lot of lessons and some times that is pretty humbling.

 Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24)

This is one of my favorite verses.  I love that God wants our belief, but if we are not believing as we should He will give us faith if we ask for it.

What does this have to do with my week? Well (digressing again) a few found a house we love in Toledo.  Just perfect for our family.  Move in ready.  So we put in a bid and it was accepted.  With a contingency.  Because we needed to sell our house first.  

(yes, this house!)  Anyway, we knew there was a possibility that we could lose the house in Toledo. They were still open to bids since we needed to sell our house to buy theirs.  So, this week it happened.  They got another bid on their house that they wanted to accept.  So, yesterday around 2, we got the final word.  We had 48 hours to come through on our offer, or we lost the house.

I don't know about you, but we don't have the money for a down payment on a HOUSE just lying around.  So, it was going to take a miracle for us to keep the home in Toledo.  So we prayed and our friends prayed.

Guess what!?!  Ha, fooled you, no miracle!! Of course, there are still 20 hours until we lose the house, but no one has shown interest in coming through the house.  Now, I know God can still make it happen, but I don't think He will. I think He has a lesson He wants to teach me.

Kind of strange, I KNOW that He has called Kevin to our new church in Toledo. No doubts there.  We wouldn't be going if we hadn't prayed about that.  If we didn't feel sure.  Kevin would have left the ministry rather than accept an assignment he didn't think was God's calling on our lives.

So, what is the problem?  What is my lesson?  It has become very clear to me in the past few days that I don't trust God with every aspect of my life.  I trust Him to tell me what city to live in, but I don't trust Him to lead me to the right home.  I don't trust Him to make sure our house here sells.  I don't trust Him to meet our basic needs....

 ²⁵"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life^[b]?

 ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.  (Matthew 6:25-33)

So, I have got to learn this one.   To give up this control.  To trust HIM to take care of even the little details.

Lord, I believe! Help me overcome my unbelief!  Give me the trust I need to trust you!

Publish Post

Fun Run at School

Looks like fun to me!!

Dining Room Make Over

This is the dining room floor before work was done. We figure it was last finished during the Great Depression. The floor was not finished where the rug was to save on materials. As you can tell it really needed love. What you cannot tell is that the boards were slightly spaced apart. Any spill would fall right through to the basement! Spill milk on the floor? Clean up in the dining room and the basement!


Here is the finished floor. And furnished dining room, of course. Isn't it a pretty room?

The Jobe Abode...

has been resurrected! I figure with all that is going on in our lives, it is appropriate to start blogging again.

In case you haven't heard, about a month ago, Kevin was reappointed to a church in Toledo! So we have been in the crazy process of preparing our house to sell and finding a new home. As well as dealing with leaving behind family and friends who we love and will miss beyond words.

We've painted, put down new floors, painted, fixed a chimney, painted, cleaned, painted, put up wallpaper border, cleaned, painted....you get the idea.

I'll post some pictures. My house looks great, just in time for us to move.

I've been stressing a lot about the house selling . We found a great house in Toledo. But it is on a contingency. In order to get it, we have to sell our house. If they get another offer, we have 48 to respond, but we can't do it without a down payment and we don't have a down payment without selling out house.

There was an open house this weekend. Only one couple came through and they were not too interested. So, for the time being, I'm trying to rely on God's timing. Because, honestly, I have no control over the situation, as much as I would like to. Right now, the best I can do is to do laundry and keep the house cleaned up as much as possible with 5 little monkeys running around!