1 More Day...God is in the Details

About seven months ago, my husband and I felt God leading us to sell our home of 19 years.  After all, we were now empty nesters and were entering into a new phase of our lives.  We spent months looking at houses where we could make our home. Would we buy an old home and fix up? New home? Build?  One of the first homes we looked at we loved but we talked ourselves out of it saying it was too big for us.  We should be downsizing now that it was just the two of us.  

However, God had other plans.  We would find a home we liked but it would sell before we could even make an offer due to the fact that our home hadn't sold.  We would both continue to drive by our dream home just to see if it was still for sale and would talk ourselves out of it the whole way home.  To make a long story somewhat short - our house sold; our dream home was still on the market, and the price had lowered.  After much prayer, we bought our dream home.  

The first week I asked my husband many times if we had made a mistake.  The house was so big for just the two of us.  And he, along with my children, assured me God would fill it up.

Just a few weeks of living there, my sweet mama became very ill and after a short time in the hospital she told me she wanted to come live at our house.  I was shocked because she always told me she would NEVER leave her house - that she would die there. 

We moved her to our home and called in hospice.  We knew we had just a short amount of time with her.  My brother brought me a book I had given my mom years ago entitled "All About Me" - a collection of questions designed to create a picture of someone's life.  It was a Christmas gift from me to my mama and I asked her to give it back to me the following Christmas for my gift.  

She never completed the book; however, she did get through several pages.  As I was reading it, one line jumped off the page.  The question was:

A monument you would like to have a view of from your bedroom.  Her answer: a waterfall or water fountain.

Wouldn't you know it - God was way ahead of us.  Out her bedroom window of our new home was a water fountain on the lake that she could see from her hospital bed.  She wanted the window open so she could see.  She spent most of her day staring out that window. 

Although nonverbal because of the stroke, my mama's eyes sparkled as I talked about this newfound knowledge of her wish for a water fountain and how awesome God's goodness is.  I told her all about the other homes we had seen but God kept leading us to this one.  And now I knew one reason was so that He could bless her.  

God has been in every step of this journey.  I don't know how long we will live in this home; however, I know my mom was blessed by the short time she had here.  There was never a day that the house wasn't filled with friends who brought love and laughter.  

My sweet mama went home to be with Jesus last week.   But she left this world knowing that we loved her and that God loved her.  He was in the details!

God loves us!  God cares about us!  Every detail!

"Indeed, the very hairs of your head are numbered." Luke 12:7a