Sale Pending

When you put your house on the market, you can kinda settle into this mode of thinking wherein you try your best to actually let go of the idea of selling your house.  Otherwise you drive yourself crazy stressing over when you're going to get the call, and believe me I was a champion stresser at times in this phase.  This is especially true in the current housing market.  Depending on where you live, you could be waiting for months.  We waited 9.  I know some who have waited much longer, some less, and some still waiting.  Either way, it's quite the ordeal.

After getting the call this past weekend that we have an offer on our house, we now enter into a whole new phase.  We will now go through all the typical things like inspection, option period, the buyers financing period, closing, blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda.  And here's the deal, the same crazy making stress and worry you can experience when you're waiting for an offer comes right back around!  You now have a whole new set of problems!  Now you hang on pins and needles just hoping you don't get the call that something has screwed up and the deal has gone through...AAAAAHHHHHH. 

OK, switching gears for a bit.  Did you see the movie Munich?  This film is about the 1972 Olympic games where terrorists killed Israeli athletes and the retribution that followed.  The Israeli Prime Minister then ordered a team of assassins to kill anyone involved in taking down the athletes.  As the movie progresses, the suspected murderers are hunted down and taken out, but then questions start rising in the minds of the assassins trying to kill their way to revenge.  "When is this going to stop?", "How will this ever end?", "How many have to die?", "By killing these men, we've now made killers out of some of the ones that loved them, now what?"...You get the point.

Well, it's quite the dramatic movie (and it also makes some political statements, which I am not by the way), but I don't think it's that far of a stretch to apply the central lessons of that movie to many in my own life.  Basically - You can't make the problems dissappear, they are just going to keep coming around.  Try and make it all right and you're really going to make it all wrong.  Instead, settle into the craziness of this world and let what happens happen, being responsible for you.  The only thing which has EVER conquered the world, is love (this last one they didn't get into very much but is one of my biggest beliefs).

So yeah, now we sit in a house pending a sale in less than 5 weeks, and because of the nature of our journey, we're not completely sure of what's next.  I guess many new enemies to our inner peace will sprout up all over the place now, tons of questions, lots of doubt, and of course opportunities to fear around every corner, and we could try and take them all out or even act like they're not there...but whatever, let them come (because trust me they will).  I can do nothing about them.  I can, however, do everything about how I walk through each day with my family on this wild journey we're on.  Lord, give me love.