Really, Why Does It Feel So Much Like Dating?

First of all, thanks for all of the encouragement in the comments. I know that we are very lucky that we are even able to be looking for a house right now and that we will eventually find the right one. It was a big blow on Thursday because we had really felt confident that we were following where God is leading us.

So why the roadblock? Were we wrong? Or does God want us to go through these struggles to teach us something? Is there anyway to know for sure? As I said, we'd "put out a fleece" to try to figure out what to do. Here's one of the things we did: We had pretty much decided what we were going to offer, and so we had my friend, Mitch, go through the whole house with us and give us an estimate on how much it would cost to do everything we wanted to do. We had decided that if his estimate came in below a certain number, we would go forward. It came in below, so we went forward.

We had felt so sure, and things were clicking along so smoothly, that it really was genuine surprise to find that it was not the house after all. And that's what makes me really feel like it's like dating. All the people at work, telling me that they know that the right house is out there for us. That there's a reason and a purpose to all of this. And finding out the house went to someone else really does feel like I had a crush on someone and then found out not only that they were seeing someone else, but they just got engaged.

Well, Darn.

So we're still looking. We saw a house this morning that has a lot of possibility to it. It need a LOT of cosmetic work and probably a new roof. The yard's a little small, but other than that it looks pretty good. We are seeing 2 houses tonight. One is billed as "ready to move in" and one is kind of in between the one this morning and the "ready to move in" house. And we pray and pray and pray.

Also, I don't know what happened to the settings on my blog, but I've lost all my font and formatting buttons. Who stole them?

(ETA: Now they're showing in firefox, but not internet explorer. hmmmm)