We are praying every day that God sell our home and all that is in it, to take away our material possessions and to expand our territory (our opportunities to speak to groups). We want to follow the Lord and His guidance. All evidence we currently have points to selling everything and going on the road, limiting our personal financial needs so that we can devote our time to writing more books, and sharing our ideas and stories with people everywhere we go; not spend it worrrying about how we will make the house payment.
My heart isn't always in this prayer, as we have made wonderful friends here and there is a part of me that wants God to instead provide a way for us to stay here and still fulfill His plan for us.
I will not be unhappy either way.
The timing of this sale and move is ironic as the everyone we know is accumulating more as we are letting go of all that we have; offering it up to the Lord as a sacrificial offering, praying that He will do with it what He sees best. We are preparing for a weekend sale and open house, where we have invited friends and family to come and walk through the house, ask all the questions they have, see what we have planned and hopefully, they will buy books, and other things, donate some seed money to keep our mission moving and be encouraged by our story.
Every day we pray '...give us our daily bread...' as Jesus commanded and we try to remember that daily doesn't mean that we will have next month's bills paid today, it means just that which we need today. And, since He has provided for us so far, we will continue to trust in Him and be happy with whatever He gives us.
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