Where is my hope?

This is the first entry into my new blog. I am excited to let you know about the quirks of my life, the things I experience, and the steps that I take in my walk with my Lord Jesus Christ.

My husband Jason and I just put an offer in on a house today. This will be the first house for us. We have been married 11 years and have 4 beautiful kids. Having a home feels like a long time coming but I know that I would have never appreciated it as much as we do now with out all the steps that have lead up to now.

Jason and I spent most of our first year of marriage living on a cargo ship. Then we have gone from living with family, to tiny apartments, to military housing, and recently we lived a year and half in a 28 foot travel trailer. So having a home has become a dream that we have honestly wondered if we would experience on this earth.

We are trying to buy a home that is going through the process of foreclosure so we have been told it could take up to 30 days for the bank that owns the home to tell us if they will accept, counter, or reject our offer. So we need to remind ourselves that if this the house God wants us to have He will provide it.

So now we wait. Last week we put an offer on a different house that fell through. But during that process of waiting for the reply our daughter would say, "I hope we get the house". This was a thought I was thinking myself because I loved how spacious and new it was. However, when I heard her say, "I hope we get the house", I heard something I couldn't hear in myself. I heard her hoping in the house and not hoping in the Lord. So we talked about how we must always put our hope in Jesus not in things. It was very disappointing when that house fell through but we are learning that houses aren't worth our hope but He is. So now as we wait for possibly 30 days for this reply and we must, I must continue to remember to my HOPE in the Lord.

Thank you for reading my first blog. Talk to you soon.
Anggi