I didn’t know what would happen today, I was meeting the new owner of my beautiful home for 31 years; I could sense his Godly spirit right away, and know why God chose him to be the caretaker of this incredible home I was leaving.
As he walked into the house, he said that he had looked at several expensive homes but the moment he drove up to the house, he knew it was his new house. As he walked into the house, he knew it was a special home and it was going to be his new home. He had said he could feel the warmth of the home and it was a home, not a house. The Holy Spirit filled my old home and you knew it from just being there in it.
Funny, how God works when we will just listen to The Holy Spirit and His discernment. I had believed that my home was God’s’ and I had loved my home from the beginning because it had such a uniqueness to it and a unique story of how it had been remodeled and built like no other home in the community. When I told my ex-husband I wanted a divorce after finding out for the 7th time of the unfaithfulness, I asked for 2 things I had in my life and God gave me 3.
I wanted to remain in my home and the means to care for it, and I wanted to keep my 1950 Ford Shoebox, that had been purchased for me to enjoy at car shows.
So to have someone purchase my home and fall in love with it and to know it was truly a home, not a house was very comforting to me. It was also very sad in a way I can’t explain but maybe someone else might understand this.
I was so excited about my new journey and what was to come. I think I was always walking around with a smile from ear to ear and glowing. I still am and I guess you could say it’s because I’m still on this incredible journey into the unknown and with such peace and joy.
I didn’t know it, But God Did!
As I began to go through the many years of kept boxes and tubs full of memories in the attic and detached garage, that had accumulated from the children and grandchildren, I knew it was going to be more physical work than I could do alone as one person.
I had occasionally been talking to the ex-husband for a couple of months and now that I had to notify him about some changes I needed to make from the divorce decree, I wondered if perhaps he would be willing to assist with the heavy items.
He totally supported me with graciousness and told me that he would be willing to help me move anything necessary. This was truly an answer to prayer and I was quickly reminded of God’s promise to Restore you in from of the presence of your enemies, and they will see you being restored. It’s just how our Loving and Just God is.
Who would have ever thought or seen that my ex-husband would come back into my life months prior so that God would use him as my extra strong hand and that His promise would be made complete through this and the journey of moving, leaving the past behind me and having a new beginning, a new life, and new joy.
I didn’t know it at the time, that God would do all this and that the ex-husband would be my biggest support throughout this journey. I didn’t know it, But God did.