July 9th, 2007
This is a coffee I made a little while ago at home. It was a completely random pour of the coffee that resulted in something that I think resembles Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Isn’t it amazing that even in a cup of coffee there can be art. It may not last long but it certainly encourages us to stop, take a moment and appreciate some of the finer details of life.
July 8th, 2007
MORE? But wait, there’s more!
How often do we ‘take off’ that commercial that keeps telling us that there’s ‘more’ and ‘more again’ on top of the original offer?
Then what about ‘immeasurably more’?
That’s what we have in God-sized proportions! More than we could ever ask or imagine.
Now that’s a WOW-factor in anybody’s estimations. And that’s exactly what has happened to my family just this past week…
My daughter and son-in-law have been struggling with ’space’ issues in their home. Basically, they had outgrown it given the very limited storage available and two young children added to the equation. Not only that, they are planning an extension to their family when they receive their adopted child/children from overseas. They had looked at every conceivable angle in order to come up with a solution to the problem. Finally, they decided the best thing would be to sell their house and move to something larger.
To cut the long story shorter, they prepared their house to sell and two weeks ago advertised their first open house. They had a good response. They advertised again the next week and had their second open house. They believed that the house would sell that day – and it did – that is, they accepted an offer. Awesome!! A fantastic price as well.
Then they decided to put in a further offer on a brand new house that they had their sights set on but seemed out of reach. Previous offers had been rejected as being too low. Now they found the house was still available and the builder had dropped his price. This new offer came back again as ‘too low’. They then decided to offer $1000.00 less than the builder’s absolute bottom line. He accepted!
On Friday the contract was signed for the sale of their house.
On Saturday the contract was signed for the purchase of their new house.
They have saved heaps of money because they did not sell through an agent and they will not have to set up a new loan. They are selling for a price far above what they initially thought they would get for their house – and the new house has come down $21,000.00 from the original asking price. All up, it is just wonderfully amazing and such an answer to prayer – in fact, God has given them IMMEASURABLY MORE than they asked or thought possible. Amazing but true. Our God is an awesome God.
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, to Him be glory for ever and ever!” Ephesians 3: 20-21
My scrapbooking layout using this verse is here:
www.scrapbook-elements.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33067&cat=551