Finding Plan A - Housing Update #2

In 3 hours the listing agreement on our house expires. (But who is counting?) It has been a long 90 day process, but here is the update.

As soon as we arrived in Florida, we received an offer on our house. (Our wonderful agent laughed that this was par for the course - no offers until you're on the other side of the country! How ironic!) It was a decent offer - full price - but we would have to pay all of their closing costs, which totalled up to be rather substantial. So we countered back to raise the price $5,000, and we'd pay their costs. They called back and said no, that they couldn't afford the first price they offered anyway. I guess we could say 'easy come, easy go.' Hmmmmm.

While we were still gone, our agent showed our home to another family - for the second time. We came home, and they made an offer too - a very 'low ball' offer. So, despite the fact that I have been planning to get our Christmas tree tonight to celebrate the fact that no one else will be coming through at short notice, we're not putting up a tree until we get this sale settled one way or the other - in case we end up packing up and moving right way. We've been countering back and forth for about 10 days now, and as I've been saying all week about THIS weekend, I think we'll know what's happening by NEXT weekend.

This whole process has been quite an experience for Peter and I. It has really made personal for me the concept that God's word (or His will in this case) is a 'light unto my path.' He is illuminating the way! Imagine with me a flashlight strapped to your ankle, as you hike through the forest at night. You can't see very far ahead, but you can see just in front so you don't stumble along the way. Oh, how I would love to step back and see the big picture as Christ does (and thus know how to proceed), but He's giving us one step, then one day, at a time. Somehow, I've become content with that.

So what's next? I don't know. We have batted around every possible scenario, enough that I'm sure our agent thinks that we are totally out to lunch. But we're not, we're just trying to find God's Plan A. Stay tuned.