home sweet home…

*Listening to: “We Love You” by J Moss*

So, I know it’s been forever and a year since I last wrote anything in here… but I’ve been SUPER busy, and thus, I have much to catch up on. But first things first.

I am so blessed and excited and blessed and happy and… BLESSED! God is so wonderful and faithful and He keeps all of His promises even we don’t keep our own or doubt His Word, or just keep messing stuff up… He’s amazing.

I’ve been praying for a new place to live for quite a long time… about 3 years now. I kept asking God to get me out of my situation… just… deliver me… you know what I mean? And, for the last 3 years, the answer has been the same – “wait.” And so I did… I won’t lie, it wasn’t always the patient waiting that the Bible talks about… as a matter of fact, for the first couple years I was kicking and screaming… begging and pleading… even angry. But God, through this time, taught me about appreciating every blessing… about loving my family… about finding Him in EVERY situation (no matter how empty and hopeless and lonely it seems). He taught me that, when you are faithful to Him and to His work and His plan… and if you can be content and trust Him even when it seems like the jerk-iest people have everything you want, and you’re trying your best everyday and still can’t seem to make stuff happen… if you can get through all of that… there’s a blessing on the other side (after all, that’s what THROUGH means… you get to see the other side!)

SO, very recently, the Lord blessed me to rent a house… perfect for me (and when I say perfect for ME, I mean just that… for ME… it ain’t about nobody else… this is what God did for ME!) anyway, when we got the house, it was a mess… (or, as bryanna would say, a HOT mess)… the walls were this putrid 1980′s pink, the crown molding was white and dusty, the floors were pink tile (which I kept) and dirty, the bathroom had a hole in the ground, the cabinets were falling apart, the carpet was so disgusting you got itchy just looking at it, and don’t even get me STARTED on the plumbing problems… but the Lord is good, and always has a wonderful plan to show you who He really is and what He can do.

My church has an amazing team of guys who specialize in all the stuff that was wrong with the house, so they got busy and fixed EVERYTHING… they re-tiled the floor in the bathroom, adjusted all the plumbing, put in a new sink/cabinet and toilet, replaced EVERYTHING in the kitchen, fixed all the windows, and replaced most of the doors… but every girl knows that that is just NOT enough… we need aesthetics too!

So that’s where God, my auntie, and myself came in. I knew the pink had to go, and I knew that there was something very special about having a house FULL of crown molding around all the doors, the ceilings and windows… so we got to work.

Here are the pictures of some of the finished product: