After a week of crying out to God and asking if He was really hearing me in regards to the sell of our house and He repeatedly reassuring me that He was, we have two showings today, one showing tomorrow, and open house tomorrow.
Many people have asked why the rush on the house. If you don't think you are going to Spain until January wouldn't it be easier to just stay in your house until then? So, let me take a moment to answer these questions.
1) Why sell now? With today's housing market you can no longer do everything that is required to sell a house, put it on the market at the right price, and expect it to sell in 30 days. That still does occasionally happen, but it isn't the norm. It is taking months to sell houses, so we need to start now (or actually we started 4 months ago)
2) Why sell now? One of the requirements we must meet before we can leave for Spain is to be 100% debt free. We made a lot of stupid decisions in our lives in years before and are still paying the price for them, literally. We have debt. With the sell of the house we will be able to pay off the majority of our debt. We will then find some place to live with much lower housing cost and be able to even more aggressively pay off the rest of our debt and save some money too.
3) Why sell now? We live 20 minutes from the church where I work and we all worship and 25 minutes from Scott's work. With Scott in seminary and working full time I am carrying a larger load of the parenting duties right now (that is not a complaint - Scott and I make a great team and he did this for me years ago when I was in seminary). There are many days that we make 2 or 3 round trips from our home to Greensboro. At 40 to 50 minutes per round trip a lot of time is spent in the car. We have added new tasks to our days by now being in the support raising journey and this time returned to us would be more valuable than can be described.
4) Where are you going to live? Thank goodness God knows the answer to that question. We have friends who have offered to help in the answer to this question, but we are waiting to actually sell the house before we answer this question in a concrete way. I can honestly say this is probably the least of our concerns when it comes to selling the house. Isn't it strange how we can rest in God's ability to take care of some of the details in our lives while we struggle and fight to let Him have control of others?
5) And one last, why sell now? Because if you have ever had a house on the market with children you know how much stress it can be to have to always have the house clean and picked up and to constantly be rearranging your schedule to accommodate lookers. We have been blessed with a good deal of activity on the house, but if I had it my way, God would say it is going to sell to Mr. and Mrs. Smith on such and such date and it is ok to turn down all the other requests for showings. But since I am not in control of the world, we will leave our house spic and span and find things to do to kill time while each looker comes through and trust that eventually the one who is supposed to buy our house will come through.
Pray at these showing times that God may answer our prayer regarding the sell of our house:
10:00 - 11:00 Saturday, February 27
1:00 - 2:00 Saturday, February 27
12: 00 - 1:00 Sunday, February 28
2:00 - 4:00 Sunday, February 28
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