Nov 04 2006
Convenient?
We found out a week ago that the realtor (I’ll sell your house in 90 days or buy it myself!?) is not going to buy our house. Apparently that’s a special deal that I was supposed to ask for. Now I’m kicking myself and feeling stupid of course, but the house has been on the market for 90 days (the house on McClure) without an offer and now it’s off the market. We’re looking for renters and hopefully we’ll find one before we run out of cash to make two house payments.
Have I mentioned that my wife is now four (that’s 4!) days overdue? Not rare for her, but it’s keeping us on our toes.
Speaking of toes, today I played ultimate Frisbee for the first time in ages. It was fun, BUT late in the game I went up for the Frisbee and came down on the wrong part of my foot.
My ankle isn’t broken but I won’t know until I see in the morning how much it hurts how bad it is. I can’t put any weight on it right now.
All of this is added to a minor crisis going on with a dear friend of the family and the Ben-Ezras trying to get their house ready to move into has made our life really crazy of late. Work is busy as all get out (meetings, meetings, and sometimes meetings interrupting my meetings) and I’m preaching a week from tomorrow at my church.
Is the timing of all these things at once convenient? Nope. But is it random coincidence, chance or an accident? No way.
God is good to us all the time. I don’t know exactly why all of this is coming together in this way all at once and all right now–but He does. And when I hurt my ankle tonight at an inconvenient time I never once thought that Jesus was anywhere but His throne or that He had in mind anything but my good in all of it.
So, thank You God for inconvenient trials–and may You use them in our lives to make us more like Jesus.
