Little House on My Mind

Our floor renovations are done and our new counter tops will be installed by the end of this month. We've been quietly looking at houses and when interested, driving by them to see what they and their neighborhood look like in person. So far that has amounted to a grand total of two houses. Unfortunately, they were both sandwiched between two railroad tracks -- hence the $30,000 they knocked off as compared to similar homes near us right now.

Is it wrong to pray for God to find us the perfect house? I don't mean praying for a house we obviously can't afford but for something that when we see it say, "This is our house." I remember having that feeling about three houses we looked at when we were searching for our first house, which included the house we're living in now.

In fact, if we had three bedrooms on the same floor we wouldn't even think of moving. We're in a quiet, residential-only part of the city. We're within walking distance of three parks, one of which is a splash pad and the depanneur (a general store). We're on the better side of the highway, in my opinion, because during rush hour we don't have to wait in line at the lights while everyone going to the other side of the highway does.

When I look at houses out there now I'm really discouraged. So this makes me believe that it isn't time to move yet but that our time will come. There is a house out there for us and God will find it for us.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ Your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.