When I tried thinking of a title for this blog post, a lot of things came to my mind. “Glory to His Name”,  “Praise the Lord!”, etc. But the one that fit best was simply, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness!”, and it’s the one I chose. I started our blog, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” as a place to share, not only the things that happened in our family, but as a place to share how faithful God is to our family.

Back when I started the blog, we were already dreaming about an acreage. Those of you who know us well (and even those who don’t know us quite so well), will know how many acreages we have looked at in the past 2-3 years. You will also know how many times we were disappointed when things fell through. Sometimes the doors were all closed. Sometimes, there was only one door shut. Usually, that door was the fact that our house just would not sell! We tried, every different way. And we always prayed. Every evening, praying together as a family, more than once, “And please sell our house so that we can move to an acreage.” Sometimes it was ‘an’ acreage and many times it was ‘the’ acreage. Lately it was ‘Kelly and Donna’s acreage’. This place is located just a half mile from our current residence. We live a block and a half from the outside of town and if we continue down our street, make a small jug to the left, and keep on going, we drive right onto the yard. A place in the country. Although the house is a bit smaller than we would have liked, it is newly renovated. The yard is our dream. A shop for Samuel’s woodworking. A big old red barn for animals (and photography :-). A huge lawn to play on. Trees to climb. A garden to grow things in. Corrals to raise animals. What more could we wish?

Daddy and Kelly are friends and last spring, I think it was, Kelly offered us their place. We were ecstatic! It was the dream place! But when we heard the price, we realized it was probably an impossibility. Especially if our house wouldn’t sell. We dreamt about other places and even tried to buy them. But when they didn’t work out, our thoughts went back to “Kelly and Donna’s acreage”. They would go on trips and ask us to do their chores. I don’t know if they planned it this way or not, but every time we went there, our dreams were stirred up again and our ties with the place, grew. We looked at the house late summer/early fall. Since we were still not done with our basement renovation, we couldn’t put our house up for sale but neither could we buy the place without selling our house first. We committed it to God in prayer again. “God, if you want us to buy Kelly and Donna’s place, please sell our house.”

Around 2 1/2 weeks ago, we finished our renovation! Daddy put up the for sale sign and we waited. We got one call. Then on Friday evening, we noticed somebody was writing down the number. Even though we’d been disappointed so many times, our hopes couldn’t help but nudge their way in. Next thing we knew, they were at the door. Could they just have a look at the house? We had just cleaned the house but our laundry was on the table and supper was in the making. But why not? We showed them around. They just loved it! The lady was planning out the rooms and exclaiming about everything. This had never happened before! She even told us that every time they had driven past, she had told her husband that if this place would ever come up for sale, they wanted to buy it. (Obviously they haven’t lived in town for very long. :-)) She loves our big windows up front especially. Daddy wasn’t home so, before they left, they said they would ‘reserve’ it and talk to Daddy the next day. I was so excited!

The next day was Saturday and I, with my cousins and some youth, went to Hidden Valley to snowboard. That is another story in itself. Putting it simply, if my last run hadn’t been so very fun and had such a humorous ending, I would not have enjoyed the day that much. My legs hurt so bad!

On Monday, we agreed on a price and got the paperwork rolling. We had signed a contract for the acreage a while back so as far as we know now, our house is sold, and the acreage is ours! Things happened so fast, and went so smoothly, we just know that God sold our house and helped us buy the acreage! Great is His faithfulness! Now our days are filled with dreaming and waiting. May 1st (possession date) seems such a long ways away! Seed catalogs become quite a bit more interesting and school days are counted to make sure we’ll be done by the time we move.

Talking about school, rejoice with me. I was planning to finish school by the end of March. But, I had so many Physical Education hours that I still had to finish that I didn’t know if it would work. I prayed about it but I couldn’t seem to get through. And doing almost an hour a day! I hoped not. Then I remembered that I had done quite a bit of painting this summer. I asked if I could count some of those hours and found out I could. Yesterday evening, I added them up and guess what? The amount I can count and the amount I have left, corresponded almost exactly! Praise the Lord! No more worrying about that! And I can use that time to (write blog posts :-P) do more of my school.

This incident got me thinking. Are there more areas in my life where the solution is lying but a few inches from my fingertips? Am I worrying and stressing about something that is already solved? After all, these hours were just laying there and I knew I should ask about them but I didn’t get around to it. Instead, I forced myself out of bed and through exercise after exercise. And all the time, God is just waiting for me to take the time to use the solution He has already given me!

In Him,

Yesenia

P.S. As I edited this article, I realized how ironic this last paragraph is compared to the rest of the post. However, I decided to leave it as an example. First of all, of the Almighty’s sense of humour and secondly, that we can’t always predict how our prayers will be answered. One fact remains:

“Do the next right thing (the thing you know you need to do) and God will take care of the rest.”