Well, the house has been on the market for almost two months now. We believed that it was not a good selling time putting it on in July, but we did because we had to get going on it. We had two showings within the first two weeks and were happy about that. And then nothing. And also in the meantime we do not have any house conditionally purchased either. And in all truth, Alvin and I have been okay with it strangely enough. We believe the only reason we have been "ok" is because of our new motto "we surrender everything and trust God fully."
I have told people "what we know right this moment, as of the day we say it, today we are happy, healthy and we are not homeless." We are not naive enough to think that some health can change seemingly overnight, but currently this is what we know. Someone asked us if we were okay staying in the house and we will tell you - of course we are, we own it. However it makes no sense for a couple to stay in a big home and not use a good portion of it daily, except when out of town family comes over to stay.
I have posted about our decision to finalize ministry, and have our "Farewell to the Well come and go dessert Evening Sept 10". That is on two posts back I believe. However we still have some people ask if we don't sell, would we be open to hosting in October etc. Our answer is no, we are finished as of Sept. 10.
The other day I stopped for ice cream and bumped into a couple I had not seen for a while. The husband asked me about how we decided to stop now if we had not sold yet. I told him that it was because we sought God on the decision as a family, and that God had said it was time to wind up. He asked me if God gave me a date for this, to which I replied that often God has, but this time there was no date, but in reality God told us this clearly at the end of December last year. And that was 9 months ago.
Last week I was talking to a spiritual companion, and she was asking me about this journey and I recalled the above story to her. When I said again about it being 9 months, I all of a sudden had a huge "aha" moment. 9 months. That is the time it takes for a baby to grow. So it made sense to me that this was the birthing time for our next stage of life to begin.
Alvin and I have talked about how we feel that God perhaps wanted us to give up and stop the ministry and then we could watch him move in our lives with no distraction. We both feel that within September-October we will see things happen, and really hope that this "feeling" is from God. We are standing with our hands empty and open fully to what God has in store.
The other day a young woman who has been a blessing and prayer warrior for me since we met here at The Well (as well as the ministry and also our daughter Ashley as she went through the finality of her marriage two years ago) contacted me via facebook message. She said, "Good morning. I am worshipping in my kitchen this morning and a song I have never heard made me think of you!!! Joy, God is going to make NEW WINE out of you"
And she connected this link https://youtu.be/1ozGKlOzEVc?si=RhTzkofDuLCmOiMc
I love the song, and listened to it again. The lyrics are beautiful:
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