--WISDOM PRAYER // THE LORD ANSWERS IN HIS WAY~~

--"Lord God, thank You for friends who help us see when we are are the roadblock to something
that needs to be done. Use us for Your glory." --

--"The end of a matter is better than it's beginning, and patience is better than pride."
---[Ecclesiastes 7:8/ NIV] -

---I WANT to completely declutter the basement before Thanksgiving, my wife, Pat said while we were out for a walk.

"I have a lot of stuff going on...Why do we need to do that now?" I questioned. Pat and I ad decided to downsize to a smaller home. Earlier that afternoon we had signed the final drawings for a new house. Construction wasn't scheduled to start for another six weeks, and Thanksgiving was less than a month away. "So, when do you want to start decluttering?" Pat asked. "In the winter--maybe after New Year's. We won't even be moving until late Spring, I replied. "But the time will go really fast," she said.

A few days later my friend Jim asked me how everything was going. I shared that I thought Pat was moving too fast with decluttering. "Just get out of the way and let her run with it," he said. Jim's words cycled through my mind. The next morning, I suggested to Pat that we pick a week, clear our schedules, and dedicate the time to totally declutting the basement. We agreed, selected a week, worked together, and got it done. Weeks before Thanksgiving, the basement was practically empty.

Finishing the decluttering freed us to handle all the unexpected things that popped up along the way. And when the builder sent a text saying the house would be ready a month early our time ;line dramatically accelerated--selling our current house, packing for the move, handling both closings. It was good Pat had a plan. What I had resisted at the start became a blessing. ~~

-"All things work together for good to those who love the Lord. To those who have been called according to his purpose."-[Romans 8:28]

--Guideposts/JD~
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