The Start of Our Search For Our Happy Home

Hey everyone,

Matt and I have been really thinking about buying a house lately. Some of our really good friends were going through the house buying process and it got us thinking about getting a house of our own.  The thing that really got us started was looking at our rent payment and thinking it could be going towards a mortgage... but instead we are seemingly throwing our money away into renting an apartment.

We started off my looking at the usual sites: zillow, trulia, etc. We decided to talk to a realtor to see if we even could get a house, since I am in school full-time it cuts out the possibility of me having a regular full-time job-- in all reality we really were thinking that we wouldn't be able to get one until after I graduated.

Our first step was to find a realtor we wanted to use. We went with some of our friends. From then, our realtor told us to get in touch with a lender before looking at houses. We called up the lender she suggested and made an appointment.


Before we went into the appointment we prayed for God's will and that if He wanted us to get a house for Him to make a way for us to be approved, and if not we would wait. Me being negative like I am, I went in thinking there is no way we will get approved.

What do you know... WE WERE PRE-APPROVED! We were ecstatic with the news! We immediately started driving around town looking for houses.

So today we spent part of the day going around looking at houses with our realtor. I am so excited about what God is doing in the Anderson house. Tomorrow we are going to look at more houses and I can't wait. :)

God showed me a lesson over the week. The lesson was that above all I need to trust in Him and Him alone. Once I started thinking about things like a down payment and all the money it takes to get a house, I started to take my eyes off of Him and started focusing on everything else. This reminded me of the story in the Bible about Jesus and Peter on the water. Jesus told him to focus on him. However when Peter took his eyes off of Jesus he started to sink.I started to look at all the stressful things that go on in buying a house and I started to sink in stress. However, if I had just kept my eyes on Jesus I could have easily avoided unnecessary stress.

Anywho... That is my rant for the day :)

Love
Jess