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After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.

-Simon and Garfunkel

I was married at 2:00pm on Friday, January 4th 2008. 1155 days later, at 2:00pm on Friday, March 4th 2011 we are closing on our first house! God has made our lot secure. He is giving us this stewardship, and our part is to cultivate faithfulness as we enter into a reality that often seemed beyond our reach. Throughout this process He has made it clear that He is the one directing our steps, and that we could lose everything at any time. Therefore, our hope is in Him alone!!

This isn't our "Anchor's Rest" - that someday dream house - but by grace we were able to invest in a property that fulfilled four of the five desires we wrote down last July: affordable, proximate, built pre-1950, and full of opportunity to improve. I will happily look forward to finding an acreage on a gravel road someday (that was #5), and in the meanwhile thank God for the blessing of being able to pay this house off completely in just five years, instead of a 15 or 30 year mortgage. Not an easy feat for us, but God does not give us more than we can handle. We will also face the immense challenge of figuring out just how much electricity/gas/water/phone we can afford, and I for one am looking forward to competing for the title of "most resourceful wife in the world"! (I sort of feel like I was born for this!)

A new season, a new chapter, a new home.