Its cold outside and no one wants to wander to far from home. The housing market is pretty slow, and it is a bad time to be selling a house, but a good time to be a buyer. David and Sara just got themselves a new home as they figured that paying rent doesn’t make sense, and are excited and busy nesting in to a pretty split bi-level oak trimmed house. Their logic is similar to ours- why pay rent to a landowner, when you can be your own land owner?
There is a house that is for sale that is about 0.07 miles or 370 feet or 112 meters from a tributary of my favorite running/walking/bike trail in Fort Collins. It is older, and needs a bit of love, and would be a good house for a few years for a family just starting out in the world. The carpet in the bedrooms needs to be replaced, and the kitchen is from the early 70s, and the floor plan is not the best layout but it works. And what would we have to do to get this house? All we have to do is turn up the thermostat and flip on the lights. No paperwork, no realtors, no sellers. Nothing.
So the plan was originally to have Doug’s house sell months ago, because we currently pay rent and mortgage, but could not get any nibbles on the house for selling or renting. We wanted to find a house for ourselves together someplace between where I work and where Doug works. But, the best laid plans are not often the way that the water of life circumstances flow. We have found that, more often than not, God has something much more beautiful and creative for us than anything we would have thought of. So, once again, the flowing water of His love directs us towards an entirely different plan than we had in mind much the same way our relationship changed from mere friends into a couple and then to being a husband/wife union.
Oh dear, whatever shall I do?!? I have to live less than a quarter mile from my favorite running trail, closer to the mountains, in a town with churches that we each were already involved in… Drat. I guess I will just have to put a smile on my face and deal with it the best I can. I already called the Van-Go people to hopefully join a van-pool that I can take to Denver, as there is not any form of organized mass transit to Denver for north of Longmont. So, we are gearing up for another adventure.