Dear friends,
First of all, Merry Christmas! Emmanuel, God with
us... this is truly a reason to celebrate! And although I know the true
meaning of Christmas, with all the busyness, it still takes me a while
to weave through the commercialized Westernized 'Holiday' season, and
really savor our Savior's birth.
I just watched a 5 minute video clip
from a group called Journey of Faith who 'spontaneously' started
singing in a mall last week... well worth watching! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnt7euRF5Pg
Quick update on our housing situation... Praise the Lord, we have a contract pending on our house!
What
most of you don't know is that we have another house that we were
unable to sell a couple years back... No, we aren't that rich... I
worked for the largest builder in the area for 6 years and as an
employee, I was able to purchase houses at 10-20% discount. So we did!
However, when the housing market took a plunge a couple years ago, we
were unable to sell the house but we decided to proceeded with buying a
smaller house anyway, to save on our monthly costs. We've been renting
the larger house out in the meantime.
All in about a weeks time,
right after we
decided to postpone moving to Belgium, we received news from our rental
agency that our renter was moving out end of December AND a family at
church said that they were ready to move forward with the purchase of
the house we are living in now and had been trying to sell!
It also
happens to be that if I were to refinance our rental house right now, it
would lower the interest rate by almost 3%! But we have to be living in
the house to get that rate...
Hmmm... I think God is up to
something here! To make a long story short: we will be moving to our
'rental' house first week of January and closing on our other house
shortly thereafter! Through all this I am reminded of Acts 17:26b
"And He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live."
In His Service,
Jonathan & Grace
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