In His Time

Yesterday we left for Lancaster County around 3:00 right after Dick's chemo treatment, thinking we were just going for the purpose of buying the pickup truck and for Dick to be able to haul away the "stuff" to the refuse authority and Salvation Army.  However, soon after we left we got a phone call from one of the owners of our community saying that someone is looking to buy a house in our community and were we still planning to sell ours?  Plans were made for him to bring them to see it Wednesday  morning at 10.  

WELL.   That changed the nature of our evening.  There are so many things I would have liked to do before we would show the house, but there was only time for the major necessities.  We worked like maniacs cleaning and decluttering. Bless Dick's heart, he did sit on the big chair and take a 30-minute nap at one point.  It was midnight when I finally went to bed.  My feet were aching terribly and I was really afraid that I had added more injury to my existing problems.  But they felt amazingly okay this morning when I got up.  

I left around 7:30 this morning to come back to State College.  Dick, however, had today off work and spent the day getting rid of stuff and doing more last minute vacuuming, etc.  He had supper at his parents' house.   He will come back here tomorrow morning, starting work at 10:00. 

I must tell you something funny he said last night.  Many of you know how I often found really cute clothes for Destiny at the Salvation Army store.  We had several bags of her outgrown clothes for him to take to Salvation Army today.  I found another box of her outgrown things in the guest room closet.  When I brought it out and added it to the rest of the Salvation Army donations, Dick said,  "From Salvation Army they came, and to Salvation Army they shall return."  Hahahahahaha!

Whether or not these "lookers" are going to be interested in buying our house, I am amazed at the timing of it all.  First of all, isn't it something that we got that phone call when we were already on our way to Lancaster County and I had at least one evening to get things ready?  Secondly, that it was just when Dick would have a pickup truck to more conveniently be able to haul things.  And thirdly, that I had just gotten the shoes that made it possible for me to do an evening of hard work on my feet.  God really does care about little things and details.  It makes me want to trust Him more completely with all the loose ends of our lives that are seeming to take so long to work out.