It doesn't really seem real. So many times we've planned and figured and imagined and hoped and nothing happened because another door was shut in our face but today I started packing up our living room. I'm not really sure I actually believe its going to happen. Is it possible that we could actually have actual walls with paint and a place to hang pictures? Could we actually have floors that can be swept and mopped and maybe even soft carpet where you can take off your shoes and not worry about slivers? Is it possible that one day there would be no cold draft coming down from the rafters of the kitchen and instead of looking up to see slats of wood it would be a solid ceiling with bright happy lights. Maybe the counters and cupboards would safely house a dishwasher that works and maybe I could reach things without a step stool. What if broken chandeliers were replaced by ceiling fans to bring some relief in the summer. And what if we can simply open our windows when we want a breeze. No more trying to hold frames together while switching out screens and storm windows. No more trying to tape broken storm windows and hoping they will hold another year. No more garbage bags and cardboard where a window used to be. What would it be like to sink into the couch of a finished living room and not see a construction zone around you? It truly seems too good to be possible and honestly we hope it isn't. There are so many questions not yet answered and so many details we don't even know we have to figure out. But we know that now is the time that God has said, "Go," and He has opened doors that were sealed tight so...Here we go!
The task before us is impossible except for God. I am not looking forward to it at all. I remember at a Women of Faith conference, one of the speakers shared that she had always wanted to play the piano and finally one day she was able to take lessons. She couldn't wait to play beautiful music but the teacher wanted her to play boring scales. It was then she realized she didn't want to learn to play the piano she simply wanted to play the piano. I don't think I really want to fix this house I just want to live in it already fixed. But fix it we must, so God must have something more for us to learn in this process and here we go.
Victoria is helping me to organize and research things because she is great at it. I know that some of you have offered to help and quite honestly over the last 5 years of waiting I can't remember who. So she is going to put together an e-mail list giving regular updates of what work is being done. We will need all sorts of help from demolition to clean up to watching kids to cooking to running wires to putting up walls to mudding to painting to moving things in. And I'm sure there is more I haven't listed. If you want to be on that list please contact me. One thing I do look forward to is seeing how God is going to use many to accomplish something that we cannot even hope to do on our own and even better - getting to visit with our friends.
Blessings to you,
Misty Sunshine
The task before us is impossible except for God. I am not looking forward to it at all. I remember at a Women of Faith conference, one of the speakers shared that she had always wanted to play the piano and finally one day she was able to take lessons. She couldn't wait to play beautiful music but the teacher wanted her to play boring scales. It was then she realized she didn't want to learn to play the piano she simply wanted to play the piano. I don't think I really want to fix this house I just want to live in it already fixed. But fix it we must, so God must have something more for us to learn in this process and here we go.
Victoria is helping me to organize and research things because she is great at it. I know that some of you have offered to help and quite honestly over the last 5 years of waiting I can't remember who. So she is going to put together an e-mail list giving regular updates of what work is being done. We will need all sorts of help from demolition to clean up to watching kids to cooking to running wires to putting up walls to mudding to painting to moving things in. And I'm sure there is more I haven't listed. If you want to be on that list please contact me. One thing I do look forward to is seeing how God is going to use many to accomplish something that we cannot even hope to do on our own and even better - getting to visit with our friends.
Blessings to you,
Misty Sunshine
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