Closing Date of our Home is: October 28, 2008
Wow! The years of preparation and much prayer has gone into this day! Thank you a big bunch to Mrs. Cutie Christensen for her endless hours and hours to help make this happen (helping me find moving trucks, realty, etc! Much of these prayers are on behalf and from our children. I just trusted in God that when it was His time, we would make the 'exodus' to Utah to call it our new home after living here in Tucson, Arizona as a family for 6 years. It took Tom awhile but he, too trusted in God to see us through to be with our children and grandbabies. It is not easy for him leaving a life he had grown accustomed to.
I have grown to love where I lived here in Tucson. I never knew I was going to have these feelings in saying goodbye to all the people I have met, served and loved here, including Tom's family! I always miss a home I have lived in before and this will be no exception! I will even miss the monsoons and hot weather and my own little zoo in our backyard with the saguaros! This home holds a lot of memories but it is time to take courage to move on to make other memories, too. We missed out on a lot of the children's years while being away from them. I had a lot of fun making it a home especially in the last year. In fact, if wasn't for the opportunity to stay home and sell this home, I could not have gained such a vast knowledge of what it takes to sell a home. An occupation I plan on taking up when I move to Utah! Spencer and April are planning on sacrificing their time to come all the way down to Arizona to help us move! Micah is letting Spencer take the time off, so he can help. That is awesome, son, thank you for letting us have Spencer! Lani wanted to come also and I am sure many of our other children had also but circumstances would not allow it. Thank you soo very much, it is the thought that counts! Lani and Steve is going to put us up until we settle in Utah. That is also an incredible help, too!! We are beyond thank you for all this help, love and sacrifice!
It is time to spend more time together and gather precious family memories and we hope by being closer we could gather them more easily and treasure them in our heart of hearts as we get older.
I almost feel like the Israelites going to their promised land with much anxiety and happiness. In my thoughts on this, one thing struck me, I don't want to be like the Israelites in taking 40 years LOST in the wilderness to get there, when it could've taken JUST 11 days, because of their disbelief and not trusting God a lot and relying on their own 'I will do it when I feel like it' mentality their promised land journey turned instead from a promise to a burden. If God needs to humble me as often as he has to, to teach me not to be a hardened spiritual spoiled brat, then I welcome the wilderness any time he feels I need it. I know it becomes extremely difficult seeing my blessings being so hard in my heart. My blessings motivate me to keep my focus on the prize. Our prize is our 6 children with their loving spouses and our grandbabies and each other.
