God knows the neighbors!

We had just gotten the kids off to school when Josh said, "I'd like to take you to see something." He had a sort of smirk on his face that got me wondering. We jumped in the car and he headed off in the direction of Bizovik; the village we've been praying about. He drove past "our" house to a different part of town and wound his way towards a piece of property that we had looked at 2 years ago.

I got a sick feeling in my stomach. This parcel had been our "first crush". It was adorably situated with a little stream running just down the back of the property line, pushed up against the Golovec forest with another vacant lot next to it giving it a pristine and quiet atmosphere. We had decided to make an offer and see what would happen when we learned it'd already sold 2 days and earlier and we'd missed our dream spot.

Was he taking me to see how cute the cottage was that the new owners had built? We had been so dissappointed but we told God we believed that he was doing this in our best interest and that even though we believed that location would have been best for us he must know that it was not. And so two years ago we thanked him for protecting us, chose to believe him and started looking again.

We turned the corner and I could hardly recognize the land. The foundation of a house was started on the parcel we had considered but the immediate attention getter were 2 giant structures on the previously vacant lot. The neighbor had built apartment buildings! They weren't even finished and you felt squeezed in just standing on the street! A giant cement wall seperated the property from the river bed to prevent erosion and actually the stream was now enclosed in a cement pipe!

We drove away from there light hearted and praising God! Not only did he know best, he protected us from getting what we wanted! We thanked him again as we did 2 years ago but this time with more enthusiasm. Today it is reminding me that we can trust him to protect us in regard to this new place we are considering. We're depending on him to move things forward or shut it down completely!