"For I am about to do something new. See? I have already begun! Do you not see it?"
Wowzer, this is gonna be a good one!
Last November, we were making plans to get a specific place for Happy Hamstery because it's been growing so much that the boxes of inventory have been slowing taking over my entire house!
So, we found a new space and were so excited to put in an offer!
Then, my husband suddenly lost his job. It wasn't his fault, the company was bought by a bigger company and they let the whole department go and filled it with their own employees.
We decided it wisest to pause and wait until he found a new job. We enjoyed the holidays together with the new time off that we had as a family. Come January, Michael started applying like crazy. The job market is brutal but finally Michael started a new job this month; praise the Lord!
I was SOOO excited to begin again looking for a way to give Happy Hamstery its own space and for me to be able to have my clean home back once again. We immediately restarted the process of trying to get pre-approved for a loan! I was SOOO excited to FINALLY after 6 months start moving toward that goal that felt so impossible for so long.
I thought nothing could get in our way anymore, and then just like that. It felt like everything was going wrong. I won't bore you with the details, but it just continued to feel like no matter what, everything was against me.
I so badly longed for this, and had gotten my hopes up with his new job starting that these delays really were starting to hit me hard.
I don't really consider myself a cryer, maybe a few times a year, but this really got to me. I felt completely defeated and cried like a baby, poor Melody, she was so confused why her mama was crying.
Finally, I realized I needed to pray and ask God to help us with all the obstacles. I kid you not, after finally bringing this to God, everything started falling in place like clockwork over the next week. We found a space to move into, we got approved for exactly what we needed, we put in an offer....AND ARE UNDER CONTRACT!!
This verse hits differently with how recently this has all been going down.
"For I am about to do something new. See? I have already begun! Do you not see?"
It's so hard when you don't know the ending and your in the middle of the hard season, like the news of Michael losing his job and the 6 months it took to get a new one, and then finally thinking all was well and still running into more obstacles. But God had a plan.
It's so important for me and all of us to remember this, bring it to God, no things is too BIG or SMALL for God, and who knows?
Maybe He's about to do something new? Maybe, He's already BEGUN!
