So after deleting my old blog, this new chapter starts here:

So I guess from day to day what I write depends how I feel:
Today I feel totally amazed by God's provision - I realise I shouldn't be so surprised by this as God as been talking to me about his provision since mid last year. So here's the story of why I'm amazed at His provision today:

On Thursday our tenants finally told us they were moving out, I had been asked for an answer if they were staying or going for a few weeks. This leaves us 2 weeks before they leave. We put the advert up on Thursday and within the first 24hours had 4 enquiries and 100 views of the advert. We held an open day today and we had 3 interested parties, of which 2 wanted to proceed and sign up today. One offered extra $$ but was short term and the other was long term. We went back and offered it to the long term person and they have accepted. So long as they don't change their mind before tomorrow evening or Monday when we sign the papers this was the quickiest and easiest tenant finding we have ever had. There was a fair bit of stress as a few weeks with no tenants was looking daunting financially with school going back, Christmas costs etc but God's provision of tenants was amazing.

We have been talking about selling the property to take financial stress from us and still we will do that at some point. We had a real estate agent come through today and another to come next week and we'll see what that brings. We have contacted the bank and the accountant to check out what amount we'd need but at this stage till spring we will hold onto the property.

Life has been really tough financially for a few months, the fridge and freezer don't look healthy and at times we have made do with whatever random offerings are in the cupboards but you know we have been hugely blessed by little things: The gift of fruit, looking after a friends cat and having access to their strawberry patch!, family being away and being able to get a lettuce from their garden, bread and honeypuffs left over from a camp.....each little thing reminds me of God's promise he made when sitting in church one Sunday and God starts talking about relying on him, about trusting Him and trusting for His provision. I didn't really understand why then we hit a hurdle but we came through ok, I was thinking we are ok that was strange and we hit a bigger hurdle.....but we made it through.

We are better now than we were last year yet it doesn't feel any different as there's still no breathing room....it's week to week, month to month having enough money to cope and pay the bills but having to transfer money to this account then to this account is tiring. In a year or two we should be past this point I would hope....but it all comes down to I need some more work. Now it's looking like a contract job I had will not continue which just gave us that little bit more towards debt. So I go on just trusting on God, His provisions and keep one foot infront of the other.....in the hope and belief we are getting somewhere....even if it is just another year older!