Track 13: We're moving! →
You read that right! We've been really really busy. Who isn't busy though?
Another big life change has come our way. Adding to Lou's major life changes, as if leaving a career, moving to a new city and getting married wasn't enough, now in the past six months we were blessed to add a beautiful baby to our lives — and now a home to call our own.
I think real estate has been crazy in our area for a while. Fremont, Nebraska, on the other hand, seems like a battle to the death. It's housing situation has reached an epic "Beyond Thunderdome" proportion.
We've been living among moving boxes for over a month, and one of us enjoys this more than the rest of us.
We saw many houses we looked at sell within days of listing. We would not have this home today, but by the Hand of God.
We were the first people to call the number on the For Sale By Owner sign in the yard. The seller was an answer to prayer as she agreed to hold off on showing it to anyone else until we got our paperwork together.
She could've sold it in a day, but waited more than three for us. We went from zero to home buyer quicker than I imagined with whiplash inducing speed. God's hand has put amazing people and opportunities in our life to help make it possible.
The Lord Jesus Christ has been so faithful in our lives. And there's not one part of it that we don't want surrendered to Him. We want to bring Him Glory with everything that we do, whether it's playing music, sweeping floors, finding a home, raising a child, moving, getting married...there's a chance to glorify Jesus in every action.
When the action becomes an idol instead of an offering, then we begin to abide in selfishness instead of abiding in the Glorious Christ — to be a worshiper.
One died for all and all should live for Him.
“And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”
We will miss our "Little Red House," as it's still lovingly called (even though the faded red is no more)! Lou snapped this photo for Etta's baby book, so she can see where she was first brought home. There's more things than we can count that we'll miss about our first home, but our walks down Nye is close to the top of the list. Sitting at the very top is absolutely our incredible neighbors who have become more like family in the last three years. The good news, however, is that we are only about a half mile away!