A Crazy Meant To Be

The past few weeks have been crazy for the Tracy household. With the recent interest rates to borrow money so low and a persuasive realtor, Amanda and I decided to sell our home of 5 years. It's been a great starter home and will be for another young couple, but we were finding we had a few wants/needs on the list and found a home we hope will fill those gaps. In order to speed up the selling process, our realtor suggested upgrading the hardwood floors and adding an egress window downstairs (addition of a 4th bedroom). In return, the home value would go up and should appeal to more buyers.

Starting on a Wednesday, I started the hardwood floors and painting of living room walls. By Sunday, I was done and the photographer came on Monday. Tuesday morning the house went live and we had 12 showings over the next 36 hours. Wednesday evening the first offer came through and it was too good to pass. Oh yeah, we signed papers to buy our other home on Monday as well. It was a crazy week, but blessed in so many ways. Lots of family and friends helping along the way to make the process easy. The biggest blessing though didn't occur during the past week.

Two years ago, I was hired by the North Dakota Highway Patrol. As a family, we were moving to Grafton, ND. Our home was on the market for 3 months and didn't sell. You can probably argue the market had little demand, and this is true. The bigger blessing was from God. We believe God wanted us to stay in Fargo and continue our purpose within this community. We believe there are bigger things coming up for Amanda, the kids and myself and we are going to help others in many ways. Trying to sell our house during those 3 months was a very stressful time, but this time around God showed his awesome glory and we are so happy to move, yet stay in Fargo.

God's amazing power is so easy to see when the good times are good, but I think we grow as Christians immensely when we can recognize his glory during stressful times. We all know who those people are in our life. Aspire to be like them, because they are so fun to be around!!!

God bless and thanks reading.