A God Thing

So...here is a God thing:
the house we are renting went on the market a bit ago. When it went on the market it totally threw Shaun and I into a spin. We love where we live. We love the area. It's close to our church and our community. The yard is perfect. We can walk to the store, video store, bank, STARBUCKS (not that we go...but you know), a farmer's market, a huge park, etc. It just suits us. Anyway, when the house was listed the market simply DIED. And this is amazing for Vancouver. Houses have been selling like there's no tomorrow. Shaun and I looked and looked for a house to rent. then we decided to just stay put until we got an eviction notice due to sale. then we decided to look again for a house when we started this business and needed shop space. In other words we have been going back and forth and it's been quite unsettling. Whenever we've looked for another place Shaun and I just didn't have any sort of peace to go ahead. So we didn't.
Well our landlord called last night and said he's taken the house off of the market. YEAH YEAH YEAH! I can't tell you how much of a burden just rolled off of my back at that news. And then it was like God just smiled at me and said "See I always take care of you. Stop trying to take care of you yourself. It only causes you stress and pain". That reminds me of some verses :)

Steep Yourself in God-Reality Luke 12:22-24 (The Message)

He continued this subject with his disciples. "Don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or if the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your inner life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God. And you count far more.
25-28"Has anyone by fussing before the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? If fussing can't even do that, why fuss at all? Walk into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They don't fuss with their appearance but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them. If God gives such attention to the wildflowers, most of them never even seen, don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?
29-32"What I'm trying to do here is get you to relax, not be so preoccupied with getting so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep yourself in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Don't be afraid of missing out. You're my dearest friends! The Father wants to give you the very kingdom itself.
33-34"Be generous. Give to the poor. Get yourselves a bank that can't go bankrupt, a bank in heaven far from bank robbers safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on. It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.

Hmmmm...so counterculture. Ah well...let them think me crazy. I have all of eternity to be sane.

God's Princess and my husband's Queen