Our Story: Part 3 - Transition

Now that we made the decision to adopt, it was time to get our house back on the market.  We needed space!  We purchased land before our oldest son was born with hopes of building a new house by the time he started school.  We thought that would be a perfect time.  God’s timing is so much better than ours.  We had tried to sell our house before and just couldn’t get a bite on it.  Darrell and I both felt that God was saying it wasn’t the right time.  Now that we were going to have Austin and Alex permanently, we needed more space.  We had moved them to Madisyn’s room and moved her to share with Mason until we could sell our house and start building a new one.

We were so confused about everything going on.  We started to doubt our decisions and started questioning whether we made the right choice to start the adoption and if we would be able to sell our house and handle the stress of building a new one.  We decided to ask our Pastor to pray with us.  Pastor Tom prayed with us at church after service and prayed that we would get our answer as soon as that very day.  When we got home there was a message on our machine!  We finally got an offer and started looking for a place to rent.  God’s perfect timing again was reassuring us every step of the way.

We knew it would be a pain to move after we closed on the house and then move again when our house was built, but we had no choice.  We couldn’t afford two house payments if our current house didn’t sell while we were building.  We couldn’t take the chance.  We had prayed and hoped that we could rent our house, but never asked the buyer.  I guess we just figured that if he was buying the house, he would want to move in. 

The guy that put the offer on our house actually stopped by to introduce himself and brought his sister by to take a look at it.  He was looking forward to retiring and moving in.  We told him we were building a house and had put a deposit on another smaller house to rent while we waited for our house to be built.  A few days later, or maybe weeks, I can’t quite remember, he stopped by in the evening again.  This time, he apologized for stopping by so late, but he was driving and really felt he was supposed to stop.  He offered us the opportunity to rent our house from him!!  Amazing!!  Our rent was a little cheaper than our house payment!  God is good for sure!

We had prayed and prayed that if it was in God’s will for us to build a house that He would let us use it to further His kingdom!  We prayed as a family on our vacant lot before the house was built that He would use us for His glory!  We had no idea that He had BIG plans for us.  Our house was finished and we moved in November 2010.  Our 2^nd placement came to live with us on February 3, 2011.  We hadn’t even unpacked everything.  God’s timing is PERFECT!  This placement was personal!