So how many people do you know what think to themselves . . . instead of living in this big fancy house w/ 3000 plus square feet and all beautiful curb appeal. . . lets not. How much is a fancy house worth? To many Americans it is something they work really hard to achieve. Jeff and I decided to build our big fancy house three and a half years ago. Neither of us were Christians and we thought that this was just something that everyone did. You know the "American dream" Get married have kids, build the largest house you can possibly afford, buy a couple of new cars, a pool, a dog, a big mortgage. . . We were just going along with the "spend all the money you can so that you are happy" mantra.
Well two years ago something happen to Jeff and me. We became Christians. All of a sudden things seemed different. The things we had valued so much before seemed kinda silly. We really started to notice that the most important things were our faith and our family. The shell they were in was something that really was not all that special.
We started thinking about "Down sizing" about a year ago. We thought about our house mostly. We love it it is our "baby" we built it and picked out everything in ever room. I started thinking how we could be just as happy in something smaller, more modest, with less square feet and less of a payment. I started talking to Jeff about it in March. We started praying about it, and started to feel like this was really something God wanted us to do. SO in June we listed our house. We really had no idea if we could even sell in this horrible market, and in a new subdivision where you can just build your own house down the street for less then what you could buy ours. We told God that if this was really his will that it was all up to him to find the people for our house and a new house for us. Well he found them. Pretty quickly too, we had our house for sale for 4oish days or so. Now we will see if this house we have picked out will be it for us probably for a LONG time. (We HATE moving.) And guess what we get a pool! Please pray that God will keep working out the details for us, and that we will be patent with his timing. We will miss our home, but home is where your family lives I know that is really cheesy but it's true.