Bad news

It's never ever good to get a phone call with bad news...but that's exactly what happened this morning. The people set to purchase our home have been packing and getting excited to move, just as we have been doing for our new home. The people buying their condo just decided to back out of the deal, walking away from it all, leaving both ourselves and our buyers high and dry. They were pre-approved for their mortgage and last minute decided to switch banks. That 2nd bank turned them down, giving them the legal opportunity to walk away. Not fair if you ask me! They were approved again by the 1st bank, but now they don't want to go through with it because they got 'spooked'. It's so unbelievable.

Both our buyers and ourselves were set to move...they've planned things with a contractor for changes they wanted to make on our home, and we've ordered carpets, appliances and light fixtures for our new home. So, if they can't buy our home, and we can't buy our new home, what now?!?

Fortunately the builder of our new home will hold it for us (for a while anyway), but that doesn't help out financially as we sit and wait for the money on our current home. I'd say 2/3 of our home is packed up. It's a mess, a disaster area and is totally not in 'show' condition. Our Realtor told me on the phone that we will have an open house here this Sunday. What?? Guess what I'll be doing all week...cleaning, straightening out and in between the tears, getting ready to re-sell?!?

I am in shock. I am in disbelief. I am totally and completely numb! I ask myself over and over why the Lord would allow this to happen, and I have no idea why. What is He trying to teach us? What is this 'test' of our faith for? I won't have the answers right now, but hopefully one day I will. In the mean time, I will be praying, crying, trusting and waiting.

Please pray for us. We have lost so much money already in caring for my Dad over the past few years, we are in fear of losing much more if our home doesn't sell. It's scary and I fear that my husband (or myself) will get sick over all of this. Stress is a BAD thing! Pray that our original buyers' home would sell and that we would be able to continue this process we've already begun with them. Pray for peace. Pray that God will give us the strength to 'wait on Him'. Pray for our children. I have no desire to homeschool them right now...not a good thing. Pray that they will continue to learn through this experience and that we will catch up on our 'book work' as time goes on. Thanks...I'll keep you posted.