House Hunting

House hunting. We spent the evening shopping for a new house. We went and saw three different houses all within about a five mile radius of each other. All three had their good points and all three had their shortcomings. We left the three houses narrowing it down to just two. We are torn between the two that we liked and we are having a tough time picking one we like better than the other.

We have spent the last fifteen years doing major renovations to our current house to get it exactly how we want it, but it’s time to move on to something else. It’s hard to leave a home that is the first home you bought, the house you brought your bride home to and the house your two children came home to from the hospital. Memories are hard to move away from.

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.” - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.

Change happens throughout our lives: relationships, jobs, cities we live and even homes. We never lose the memories we have at the places we’ve lived, and we always have opportunities to make new memories the places we are going. We have to trust in the mighty hand of God that He will direct our paths and open doors for us to walk through. We have to trust that He will also close doors He does not want us to go through. “In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” - Proverbs 3:6.

Have a great day and God bless.