Today was a day of reckoning. Now all you gals out there can relate to me. Yes, me. Charmagne is taking a bath so I am her ghost writer for a few minutes. To start we were told that we were to be moving in around mid September. So that was our due date. Early on when we became house pregnant we were happy and motivated to build a house for God's work. That was and is our vision. In our first trimester we were so excited to plan the house like buying all the cool stuff for our babies room. Boy were those the days. Then we started to owe the bank on our construction loan which is like gaining that weight we swore we wouldn't gain. It was OK at first but by the 7Th month became a little uncomfortable. Our vision had remained intact up till then. Around that time our builder/OBgyn assured us we were to have a safe delivery. Like all parents we saw that date as crossing the end zone. But, as that date neared we noticed something wasn't quite right. Deep down inside we felt that the date wasn't doable. Now we were nine months pregnant and ready to burst. We became anxious. We began to question everything. Why isn't this done. Why isn't that done? The answers were always reassuring but we knew better. So we began to press more until we finally popped. Charmagne called me and told me we had lost our vision. What? I said. She explained that this wasn't fun any more. It was now like having a baby two weeks late. Of course I reassured her that all this agony was due to the due date we had set. So we sat back for a moment and began to think. We began to cry a little. We began to rethink what we were doing and suddenly the answer became clear. We needed to go back to the beginning and start over and create the fun and spirit that made all this possible. So we eliminated the due date. We decided that this house will be done in God's time. Our builder Jeremy had been summoned to go next year to Iraq as an officer and here we were making all this into a lets get it done by a due date house instead of lets create God's house in God's timing. I suddenly felt real bad as we have great people working for us who want to do a good job. This economy can play tricks on people as nothing is normal about it. So tonight we decided to lessen the stress on every ones heart and pray about what is most important. That is keeping on course to create a destination home owned by God as all things it is made of were made by God. I feel better now knowing I don't have to have everything done by tomorrow. I called Jeremy to tell him I was sorry and hopefully he will feel better in the morning now this stress is off his back. It's enough to have to get the house done and worry about leaving your family. So God showed us wisdom today and we will be praying every day to make this His home. I guess we used the pregnant illustration because thats all thats been talked about around here for the last month. Brittany and Nestor are expecting OUR first grandchild. Life is good!
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