{"id":459,"date":"2022-02-28T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/blog\/its-not-the-house-its-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T04:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:21:16","slug":"its-not-the-house-its-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/blog\/its-not-the-house-its-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not the House, It\u2019s the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We said goodbye to our sweet little house in the big woods quite awhile ago, and have been happily living in\u2026an RV. (Well, I prefer to call it a tiny home.) I still can hardly wrap my mind around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian and I were sitting together on the staircase of our home about a year ago. \u201cI have a crazy idea.\u201d He said, \u201cBut I think it\u2019s a good one.\u201d Uh-oh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something about selling our home while the market is hot, making a good profit, and sacrificing a bit living in an RV while we wait for the perfect piece of property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, you have to admit it was a good idea, but at the time, I thought. \u201cThat will never happen. There\u2019s nothing to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I did start to get worried when January came, and the man started fixing up the house like a mad man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis is not happening. We are going to fix up the house, and then stay here.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLord, please change this man\u2019s mind. PLEEEEEAAAASE!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then we met with the realtor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLord, if this is not supposed to happen, don\u2019t let it happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then the first buyers backed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSee! It\u2019s not supposed to happen. Lord, please change Brian\u2019s mind!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then the house went back on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLord, please don\u2019t let it go through!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then it went through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, this battle! I hate it! I want to 100% back my up husband, but I DO NOT want to leave our sweet little home with so many special memories, and I certainly DO NOT want to live in a camper for who knows how long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love my husband\u2026.so so much. I know he wants what is best for our family. But, I mean, REALLY, is purposely putting yourself in a weird (dare I say even awkward) situation\u2026is that what is best for us. REALLY?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do you do when you love your husband so, but you really, really, REALLY disagree with him? Well, I can tell you what I did. I started out by praying that God would change HIS mind. I tried to convince the Lord that this is such a horrible idea. I\u2019m not doing it. The end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ha! I quickly realized that maybe MY mind was the one that needed changing. Instead of praying, \u201cLord, change HIM, or change HER,\u201d when we have a problem with someone, we really should pray, \u201cLord, change ME.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And you know what? He did. God changed my heart. He changed my attitude. He changed my mind. He pointed out some really ugly spots in my heart that I had not dealt with. He showed me my pride and my selfishness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ultimately, He pointed out that our dwelling place here on this earth DOES. NOT. MATTER. What does matter is that whether that dwelling place be a huge mansion in Hollywood or a tiny hut in Africa, it should be pointing the people inside of it to Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lord, let this tiny little home, where my hands hit the ceiling in the shower, where I can only bake 6 cookies at a time in the oven, where my kitchen is my living room, and my living room is my dining room, where everything takes longer and is more inconvenient\u2026let this be a little bit of heaven on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because it\u2019s not the HOUSE, it\u2019s the HEART, and it’s not the AESTHETICS, it’s the ATTITUDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. Here <\/a>is a little goodbye video I made for our family. Thank the Lord for memories. If the walls of our house could speak, this <\/a>is what they’d say. Tears every single time. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We said goodbye to our sweet little house in the big woods quite awhile ago, and have been happily living in\u2026an RV. (Well, I prefer to call it a tiny home.) I still can hardly wrap my mind around it.<\/p>\n

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Brian and I were sitting together on the staircase of our home about a year ago. \u201cI have a crazy idea.\u201d He said, \u201cBut I think it\u2019s a good one.\u201d Uh-oh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,22,23,16,14,20,15,26,18,21,19,24,17],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camper","tag-dreams","tag-goals","tag-goodbyes","tag-home","tag-home-decor","tag-house","tag-ideas","tag-memories","tag-new-plans","tag-our-home","tag-rv","tag-sadness"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-web-or-mls-DSC_2511-Edit-2.jpg?fit=1920%2C1279&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfulandflourishing.org\/staging\/9315\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}