Everyday Miracles
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Everyday Miracles #4: Buying the Perfect House
Photo by Vladislav Chorniy From Getty Images August 2021 Two of my sons wanted to buy a house together during the housing market craziness of 2021. Houses were all selling for way over the asking price. They had a few specific dog-friendly things that they needed in a house, and an ideal area where they wanted to live. They were thrilled when they found a house they liked, and made a bid for a considerable amount over the asking price. They lost the bid and were very disappointed. My sons kept looking, but no other house measured up to the location and specs of the first house. So I went…
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Everyday Miracles # 3: Choosing Where to Live
Photo by Jeff Denlea from Pexels (This is a stock photo.) Sat 20 May 2017 In 2017 I was sizing down from a house to an apartment. I had narrowed my options to two apartment complexes located in different towns. One complex was near two of my sons, and the other was near one of my daughters. I was having trouble making a final decision. After all, where you live is a significant decision. And I hate moving, so I didn’t want to do it again for a long time. I decided to prayerfully go through the grounds of each place, carefully monitoring my inner peace as I envisioned myself living…
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Everyday Miracles #2: Perfect Timing
Photo by Billion Photos (This is a stock photo.) November 1995 My family moved from the East Coast to the Midwest in 1992. The Lord miraculously arranged for us to buy our first house on a contract-for-deed. It was a little post World War II ranch, practical but not very pretty. After three years we were ready to move up to a house that would better accommodate our large family. I found a historic 5 bedroom house that I wanted to buy and I had a young family lined up to buy my ranch with a lease purchase. All that I needed to do was to contact the couple who…
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Everyday Miracles#1: Highway Rest Stop Assistance
Photo by welcomia (This is a stock photo.) August 1992 (written 5 February 2024) The Lord called my family to move from the East Coast to the Midwest. This was a particularly hard time because I had a stillborn daughter in June of 1992. My husband and I drove to Kansas to look for a job for him and for a place to live. We had our two-year-old and four-year-old daughters with us. Our older children—three sons—were being cared for by a close friend. My husband was very apprehensive about our old car making it to Kansas and back, but I knew that God had called us to move and…
