Monday, May 19, 2008

Quick prayer request

I have a quick prayer request for everyone. The request: that the showing of our house tomorrow morning is successful. The background: There is this (older) couple that used to be members of the church I worked at in River Falls (they became "un-members" because of the Sr. Pastor's crap) who are our neighbors (they live around the corner). When the wife (we'll call her Jane) heard from her beautician that I was leaving Ezekiel and would be working for a church in Baldwin she called me to let me know that they were interested in buying our house. They were assuming we'd be moving to Baldwin. I let her know that we were not going to be moving to Baldwin, but staying in our house. Then a year ago (we were actually out for our anniversary dinner) we ran into them at a restaurant in town and they again let us know that if we were ever interested in putting the house on the market we should contact them before we sign a contract with a realtor. So Mark called them on Saturday. He talked to the man (we'll call him John) and I guess he didn't sound that interested, but he said he'd talk to his wife (they had company at the time, so it could have been that they were just busy and didn't have time to talk at the time). Well "Jane" called this morning and is really excited about seeing the house. They're coming over tomorrow morning at 10:45. Mark and I will be working like crazy tonight and tomorrow morning to get the house "packed away" so it doesn't look so cluttery. Mark also called the carpet cleaner and she's at our house even as I type, getting the carpets nice and clean. I'm so hoping this couple will buy our house. I think we can probably come to an agreement on the price (without having to pay a realtor we'd be able to take a little less of an offer than we'd have to otherwise). They've been in the house before (in the 70s when it was first built....and we've done a LOT of work in the house since that time). It would be a perfect house for them. Plenty of room for a retired couple. BEAUTIFUL view out the back (I'm going to miss that). Bathroom and bedroom on the same floor (I guess they don't have that in their current location). So if you could say a prayer, that would be appreciated. It would also mean being able to seriously start looking for our next home. YEAH!!! I'll keep you posted...

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