April 7th is not coming fast enough. I am sooooooo looking forward to seeing the family again. It seems so close, yet so far away! So, Stacey and I made an offer on a house that is right next door to the house that we made an offer on a few weeks ago, and someone came in and swooped it away from us. If we get this house, we feel like we will hold no grudges against our neighbors. This house is a little pricier then the other house and fits us a little better, though it has one less bedroom - but it does have a den. You can see some video I took of the houses at www.horsecloverhouse.blogspot.com. The first 6 videos on the website are of the house we are looking at now, and the other videos are from the previous house we lost out on. Anyway, we made an offer and the bank countered on Friday. We decided to counter back, but because the bank was not willing to drop very far on their price, we are not certain if they will come down very much further. We hope so. We hope to find out on Wednesday May 31, if they will meet us.
On a somewhat related story, I went to the temple yesterday. It is nice to be able to do that on a Saturday morning. Of course, I have had a lot on my mind concerning the house and getting the family out here, and some of you may know that I am a planner and worry about the future, or try to plan around various scenarios that frequently include the worst-case scenario. Anway, I opened the Book of Mormon in the temple yesterday (normally I read Isaiah in the temple because I love the allegories of the temple in his writings - so this is something I have not done in a long, long time) and read Chapter 12 and 13 of 3rd Nephi for no particular reason but the fact that the book opened to those pages. After that I went through the session and then sat in the Celestial room for quite some time. I was just about to leave when the thought came to me to re-read Chapter 13, so grabbed a BoM sitting on the table next to me and re-read the chapter. The last 5 versus struck me so very hard, especially to the 'planning-brain' side of me. The versus are below:
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, even so will he clothe you, if ye are not of little faith.
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
This may not mean much to you, but to me it hit so hard - I have little faith. I should not be planning for worst-case scenarios, but I need to be planning how to help my family and I be more spiritual. As long as I (and my family) am keeping the covenants I have made with the Lord, and putting my faith in his hands, then he will provide. So, if I am worried about providing for my family, then I need to rely more on the Lord and seek the "kingdom of God." With everything in the world and the economy in such a flux, now is the time more than ever to hold fast to the covenants we have made with the Lord. As I do keep the commandments, covenants, and grow closer to him, then he will bless us and make sure we have food, clothing, and a roof over our heads.
I am grateful for how the Lord answers the prayers of our hearts - sometimes, when you are as pig-headed and prideful as me, it takes some extra prodding.
2 comments:
How inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing that experience with us. It is something we all need to remember and work on. I love you and am so proud of you.
Neat story. I hope you met March
31st for the bank to reply. May is too far. I also agree with what mommag wrote. Oh and May isn't that far away but when you want to get a house and settled in it does seems like a long time to wait.
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