After looking at MANY houses and getting totally discouraged we returned to the seminary campus Friday afternoon, defeated. I really thought the first house we looked at by the seminary was going to be "the" house, but it wasn't so hot. So we looked, and looked, and LOOKED all over this city...
Saturday we broke down and called a company that advertised on Craigslist - you pay a fee and they will supply you with a list of properties...so we did it. They gave us some property listings both above and below our budget. One listing was a bit higher than what we wanted to pay, but only four blocks from the seminary so we drove by. We called the owner and he met us...it's perfect. It's a little bigger than what we need, but SO close to school, and a really decent place in a beautiful neighborhood! It's truly more than we could ask or imagine (hmmmm....just like that scripture I memorized from Ephesians)!! Go figure.
We turned in our application today (he had others interested, even willing to pay a higher rent, but apparently they wanted a shorter-term lease and weren't as stable - codeword for "older")! Ha!
The owner's checking our credit tomorrow and will call us tomorrow with an answer. We're still shaking our heads that we came upon this house...
We're going to Chris Brown's church tonight (see www.pghupperroom.com). He told me he's preaching on Eph. 3:14-21, just what I've been meditating on and memorized! Like I told Chris, God's doing some crazy stuff these days!! He is so good to us.
"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
~Sally
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