Roller coaster

Ryan said the other night that he had heard before that selling a home can be an emotional roller coaster, but never understood that until now.  I always took that to mean that people are emotionally attached to their houses and it's hard to let them go.  I figured that since I really wasn't all that attached to our house that it wouldn't be all that hard.  (Don't get me wrong, I LOVED our house, and I did get a little tear when we drove away from it, but I didn't have this deep connection or anything.)

Well, we have now realized that there is a whole other side to that coin.  The emotional roller coaster for us is more like deal, no deal, deal, no deal...  It's so frustrating!

Here's the latest, on Tuesday, someone came to see our house and they loved it.  Yea!  

And then they made an offer.  Yea!  

Accepting the offer would have put us in the hole.  Boo!

We made a counter offer. Yea!(I guess)

They stayed firm with their original offer.  Boo!

Deal off.  Boo!

God is still faithful and more people are interested in it again.  YEA!!!

So, that's where we stand on our emotional roller coaster.  Every "boo" is quickly followed by a "yea" and that is what reminds us constantly that God is faithful!

In the meantime, we're still praying and God is doing a crazy work on/in me.  It's been hard.  And I don't like it.  I have had my share of temper tantrums with God, but he keeps reminding me that his way is better.  He sees the big picture that I don't yet see... may never see.  

We are trusting him through the highs and lows.  Please keep praying with us that our house will sell soon.  Thanks friends!

Let's end on a fun note.  Today, Eva and I got to go play with some friends at the mall.  Some of our friends from TX who have been serving in Ethiopia are here on furlough.  One set of parents lives about 2 seconds from where we live.  They have a little girl that is 2 months older than Eva so we played at the huge play area in the mall today.  It was a lot of fun.  Eva kept saying this afternoon, "I had fun with Abby!"  It was really sweet.  And it was fun to catch up with them on life from the last 3+ years since we've seen them.  God knew I needed an uplifting day after our roller coaster ride yesterday.  Thank you, Lord!