Excitement Is In The Spirit

Well, It is Saturday Night and I have not written for the last four days because Life has been so busy and dynamic. I don't even know where to begin. I wanted to give my old employer enough time to consider me thoroughly without pushing them too much so I spent Wednesday Just cleaning up some things around the house. On Thursday, I sent an email to my old employer stating exactly how I felt about the situation and that I was firmly committed to working with them for as long as I can. I received a phone call about 30 minutes later with an offer. It seams that they could not wait to get me involved either as they were working very hard on getting things in place to bring me on all Day Wednesday. I accepted the offer and they asked that I not start until a week from Monday. Friday the called again with a customer problem, a customer they knew that I knew well and asked if I could start Next Wednesday. I accepted, but now what?

We have a house in Bluffton and now we need to move to Dayton. School starts next week and our kids are not going to want to change schools. We need to move fast. What are we going to do with our house in Bluffton? Where are we going to live in Dayton? First, we started leveraging our resources to come up with a solution for our Bluffton Property. We ended up finding a post on a local website for a couple searching for a home to rent in Bluffton. We contacted them and a day later we had an agreement that they will rent our property in less than 24 hours of knowing we would have to move to Dayton. We still had a line item in our mortgage to cover with our lender as we were not to sublease the property less than occupying it for 1 year and it has only been 2 months. I contacted the Bank and they had no problem keeping the loan the same and allowing us to proceed. Isn't this incredible? God is Great!

What about Dayton? We knew that we really liked the Oakwood area in Dayton. This mature upscale community provided all the amenities that can be enjoyed in the city while at the same time providing a small town atmosphere that you can trust your kids to hang out in. We searched high and low for an economically and logistic solution, but could not come up with one. Every house for Sale would push us to financial limits and the ones available for rent really did not accommodate what we wanted. We went to our hotel and started researching properties again and we found a property in Beavercreek about 15 minutes out of town that caught our eye. It is in a country setting and was something that did not fit the profile we set out for at all. We also discovered another rental property in Oakwood and wanted to check it out. We left to get supper and then did a drive by on the Oakwood property just to find out that it had already been taken. I was ready to throw in the towel and give up for the night and check out a new mall near by.

My wife thought different, She said that we need to check out Bellbrook because her parents thought that was a nice location. I had not considered it and thought it was a lost cause, but I decided to play along and we did so. A thought that crossed my head when I was driving to Bellbrook was I will not find our house until I find our Church. Bellbrook was a bust, but I decided to go look for the other house in Beavercreek. While we were driving around in the country, I turned and looked behind me out of the blue and between two wood areas, a Church caught my eye. First Baptist Church was the name and we drove through and saw that they had services at 9:30 and 11:00 and said that we should try this church in the middle of no where out. We then proceeded to look for the BeaverCreek property and traveled a good 5 miles finding it. After we found it, we drove a little further and found out that it was within a mile of the church that we saw. I immediately praised God for his Goodness. I won't get to see the house or even commit to renting it until tomorrow night, but I saw God's hand working here. I am not going to doubt him one bit, I am going to go to the church we found in the morning and then wait for the call from the landlord of the house near by it later that afternoon knowing that God's hand is working here. I don't know exactly what he has in store for me but I am getting more and more excited every moment.

After we found the property we explored the area a little bit and found that the mall that we wanted to check out was absolutely incredible and less than 10 minutes away from the house we looked at. God is Great! I can't wait to write about my experience tomorrow!