a few answers, and some disapointment

Thank you to whoever prayed for us this week. The funds were provided for Brent to fly up for his Grandma's funeral tomorrow, and tickets were purchased, and he will be on his way first thing tomorrow morning. Thank you also to John for "volunteering" to be Brent's chauffeur to the airport at 5 a.m.! Judah would not have been happy if I would have had to drop Brent off. He will be returning Sat. night, so it will be a whirlwind trip. Brent will be a pallbearer at the funeral. And he will get to see some family that he hasn't seen in quite a long time. Judah and I will do our best to manage without him for 2 whole days......normally that wouldn't be a huge deal, but, with Judah the way he has been acting lately, it will take all of my strength (and alot of God's) to deal with him by myself....so if you could, say a little prayer for me and Judah this weekend.

About moving...it was going to be an exciting opportunity.....and still may be. It just may not turn out how we would have wanted, but that is yet to be decided. A family at our church offered to let us rent their 1 bedroom guest house above their garage for $400/month for a short period of time. We were planning on about 6-8 months, and planning on putting about $800/month into savings in order to save up to get into a house rental. The issue is, house rentals here (that we could afford) run about $1400/month, and ask for approx. $1600 security deposit, and $500 pet deposit per pet. So on most houses, if you do the math, it would be at least $3000 for the 1st month......WAAAAYYYYY more than we ever have at one time....so our plan was to live in the guest house for 6-8 months and save up what we needed to get into a house rental. Everything was ALMOST ready to go, we gave our 30 day notice here, and were looking at a storage unit to rent. Then Brent called the husband tonight to finalize everything, and he said he has a 21 year old son that just called him and is looking for somewhere to live right now. My heart sank. You know me, I get my hopes up ALL THE TIME way before I should. It isn't a no, yet, he wants us to give him until the 15th, which at this point seems like forever. Not too big of a deal, we can HOPEFULLY back out of our 30 day notice, since they are hurting for renters in our complex. I was just SOOOOOO looking forward to this move, so that we would be able to eventually get into a house. anyway,,,,,all I can do right now is wait and pray that God would do what is best for us, what is in His plan for us. Why is that always so hard?