This is going to be a very Catholic post, so if you are offended by Catholic stuff… read on.
Back at the beginning of December we said a Novena to Our Lady of Loreto for the intention of selling our Tennessee property so we could afford to remodel the farmhouse so we can move in there. We started on the first and went to the 9th (which is Papa Doug’s Birthday) and then celebrated the memorial as best we could on the 10th. Then we did 9 days of National Guard separation working to protect other peoples’ houses.
We got a tentative offer during this time, in fact within days after finishing the novena, but it went nowhere at the time.
It wasn’t until after Christmas, in fact, the day we worked on the chapel at the rectory, that we got our offer. This reminded me of the first chapter of Haggai, in a way. We were working on the house of the Lord when He effortlessly stepped in an enabled our house dreams to move forward.
We have been working on the farm for years now, working towards the remodel for almost as long. Progress has been slow, in the sense that it moves at its own pace, not at the pace that we would like to see. Nothing we can do will budge the process forward any faster than God wants it to go. As the Good Book says, “Unless the Lord builds the house, in vain do its builders labor.”
We closed on Tennessee at the end of January.
We reached out to some contractors to look at the plans and the house and give us some estimates. They have all visited the farm and done their walk-throughs and we should be hearing from them in the next couple of weeks. We will keep you posted.
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is Good.
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