So I couldn’t come up with a title for this post. Everything just seemed so insignificant. For those of you who don’t know, yes, we are moving. We have sold our home and are going to be leaving on the 31st of this month. I know. So soon and I haven’t posted about it all in any detail. I will try to do so now.
About three month ago I decided last minute to drive eight hours one way with all of my children to go watch my sister Hannah perform in her senior piano recital. Tom would have come, but it wasn’t very convenient because the recital was on a Wednesday. So he stayed home and I was only gone a couple of days. Before that, because of some things that had been going on with Tom’s work, we were wondering if he needed to start looking for another job, or if waiting more than five months to be given any work in his new position was not waiting long enough. So we were tossing around ideas or what ifs. We contemplated how it would be to move because we would not just be giving our landlord notice. We would need to sell our home. And because we received the first-time homebuyer’s tax credit, we didn’t think it would be good to sell before we had lived in the home for another year and a half, otherwise we would have to pay back all the money from the tax credit. And $8000 is a LOT of money. So we had pretty much decided to just deal with the situation at Tom’s work for another year and a half because it just didn’t make sense to leave and sell our home before that. Besides, Tom’s job wasn’t a BAD job. It had great benefits and a pretty decent salary. And a those things are hard to get these days.
Well, even though this was what made sense to us, we kept getting this urgent feeling that something needed to change. So while I was visiting Hannah, Tom and I decided that I would attend the temple to try and sort out what this urgent feeling meant. For those of you who may not know a lot about LDS temples, this is a place where worthy members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can go in order to receive inspiration and other blessings from God and to feel peace and clarity apart from the chaos of the outside world. While I was there I was thinking of the whole situation, really all that I have told to you. That it just didn’t make sense logically. And it would take a miracle for us to be able to sell our house and have everything else work out with a way to support our family, etc. I opened up the Book of Mormon to Moroni 7:27-29 which says
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased because Christ hath ascended into heaven, and hath sat down on the right hand of God, to claim of the Father his rights of mercy which he hath upon the children of men?
“For he hath answered the ends of the law, and he claimeth all those who have faith in him; and they who have faith in him will cleave unto every good thing; wherefore he advocateth the cause of the children of men; and he dwelleth eternally in the heavens.
“And because he hath done this, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased? Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of men.”
At this time, I remember feeling the most distinct feeling that we were supposed to get our house ready to sell. It didn’t make sense logically, but I knew that God knows more than me and that if He wanted us to sell our house, we would sell our house. Whatever happened, it would be for our good in the long term. And when I called Tom right after this experience, he felt really strongly that this was what we should do as well. So we did it. I painted all the bedrooms and bathrooms in the house, Tom did a few more minor repairs, we cleaned and had our realtor write up the papers. We put the for sale sign in the front yard on the 16th of July and we had a buyer that made an offer and filled out a contract 12 days later.
Over the course of these last few months, we have had many other experiences giving us more direction as to what to do next. Then we have have gone and done what we have felt. And I guess what I am trying to say is, we don’t know where we are moving to yet. We don’t have a job or an apartment lined up for us yet. We are just trying to follow the inspiration and feelings we have received since then. And I know that it doesn’t make sense. What about providing for our four children? What about finding a place to live after this? We don’t know right now. We only know that we WILL know where we are supposed live and what we are supposed to do to provide for our family. I know that Father in Heaven cares more about each of His children than I can comprehend, that He wants us to be happy and that by following Him, we have can have peace and happiness. He is omnipotent and omniscient, all powerful and all knowing and He can guide each of us to what will bring us the most joy, the most peace, and He can guide to us to others whom we can help feel this same peace and joy. I have felt this peace and happiness in my own life as I have tried to follow Him.