God Bless Our Home

This is the home that we have under contract in Montrose. It is a 3 bedroom/2 bath home with a big family room downstairs, a big deck off the kitchen, and is on a 1/3 acre lot.



Jeff has been in Watertown for 6 months now and it’s been 3 months for me. During the time I have been here, we have been house hunting and I have been looking for a job. It just seemed like nothing was happening with either one of those things. Recently, Jeff and I decided to take a step in faith in an area of our lives, knowing that we would probably have to make sacrifices and there would be consequences. Why do we always think the worst? All we could think about was what we might have to give up by being obedient to God, yet God was just waiting to heap blessings on us.

Just a few days after we took this faith step, I got a phone call from Head Start and was offered a position as Head Teacher. This was a job that I really wanted to begin with. I had sent them a resume back in May even though they didn’t have any openings at the time. (I will blog about my job in a few weeks once I know more about it.) I was so excited when I got off the phone that I was literally shaking. That is not the end of our week though.

That very same day, we got an email from our realtor with another house that came on the market. We drove past it that evening and because it was empty, we got out of the car and walked around it and peeked in the windows. We loved it and were a little surprised that the price was in our range. Two days later we got to walk through it. Sunday, we walked through it again as well as a couple of other houses. We decided that it was exactly what we were looking for and that it fits our needs perfectly. That evening, we wrote up an offer and within 24 hours they accepted our bid!!

I don’t think that it is coincidence that during that week after Jeff and I decided to step out in faith and to be obedient to God that I was offered a job and we bought a house. God was just waiting for us, not because what we can do for Him is so awesome that no one else can do it, but because he wants our obedience and for us to trust Him completely. He was just waiting to reward us for being faithful. Hmmm, maybe sometimes the misery that we wallow in is of our own making.