Moving Day!

So, due to the $8,000.00 tax credit my husband & I decided that we should jump into the wonderful world of home owning! We haven't been looking for very long at all when we found the place perfect for us. We had been doing some research online & driving around to different neighborhoods to see where we would even like to live. We narrowed it down to 2 choices but didn't want to be narrow in our thinking. So this past Sunday we saw that there were a bunch of open houses, so I asked him if he wanted to go, and he said yes. We didn't even have a realtor at this point! So we started with the least of our choices 1st & then went to our favorite. The others were nice, they were...and every affordable...we really could have made any of them work well. So we decided to make a list of 3 areas, 5 different things in each category.
1. Must haves
2. Would be nice
3. Dreams
And we found all 15 things at Braxton Park! So we decided to jump on it & after some negotiating we settled!!!! We close on Sept. 25th & can move in on the 26!! We are so excited to be in our new home!!! We are so grateful that the Lord not only gave us the things on our list, but he gave us ALL of them! This is our dream home & we are so excited. I pray our house would be a place is a light to people & a safe place where people can come & stay & feel the love of the Lord!

Here is a tour of the unfinished home, we still have to pick the carpet out & stuff, but this is an overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WyLIwABxwM

Thank you Lord! We are so grateful!

This is why...

I was rereading my blog & wondered where I came up with my title "Sweetly Broken" & "Wholly Surrendered" and this is why.....

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Wholly surrendered is a phrase I heard in a song....by Jeremy Riddle. The lyrics actually changed my life....completely.
Let me share them with you:

Jeremy Riddle - Sweetly Broken
To the cross I look, to the cross I cling
Of its suffering I do drink
Of its work I do sing

For on it my Savior both bruised and crushed
Showed that God is love
And God is just

Chorus:
At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love,
I’m sweetly broken, wholly surrendered

What a priceless gift, undeserved life
Have I been given
Through Christ crucified

You’ve called me out of death
You’ve called me into life
And I was under Your wrath
Now through the cross I’m reconciled

Chorus:

In awe of the cross I must confess
How wondrous Your redeeming love and
How great is Your faithfulness

August 09

Wow! The year is just flying right by! Its August already! We've been on a few trips this summer, one of which was a week long trip to Myrtle Beach, SC with a group of our friends. It was so nice to just relax & not have any major plans. Then just this past weekend I went to Chicago to visit Erica, again (I went in February this year also). It was a great time, we went wedding dress shopping because she got engaged July 3rd to a wonderful man, Dennes. So we did the wedding planning stuff, got her wedding dress, tried to find bridesmaid dresses, but were not successful yet. I think they found the place they are going to have the reception & the invitations are almost done! So they are well on their way! The wedding will be in April 2010.

Jeremy & I are in the process of buying a home. We are going to go the townhouse route & then eventually we will have it as rental property! So we are excited about that, by the end of August we should be able to start looking fully & then we should be in a house by the end of October! I'm so excited to do something as a married couple! To buy something together & actually be growing up a little! Its kinda scary! haha but so fun at the same time.
It is going to require much prayer!

I've had a lot on my mind these past months...lots of thoughts on death & almost fearing it, I don't know why I get so scared, I know where I'm going, I know that it will be a million times better than this place, but I still get nervous about the unknown. So its been a few weeks of pondering. I need the Lord so much these days. Which is good. I'm trying to stay on my knees. I have a tendency to stand up though.

I've been listening to Craig Groeschel at http://www.lifechurch.tv/
He has been speaking on Elijah & just what an amazing man of God he is, I pray one day I have the faith he does to stand up for the Lord. To really let my life shout Jesus like his did.