WOW...

Hi everyone! Ok...WOW! We need your prayers today as we just got a little twist on everything. Last night our realtor called us and apparently we have a 2nd offer! Someone came earlier this week, who hadn't given feedback on the house, wants to buy the house AND it's for $7K more than this first couple. We are absolutely dumbfounded and need your prayers for wisdom and discernment as we try and figure out how to procede. The kicker is that we have not yet signed the docs for the counter offer but we did give a verbal "ok." We want to make sure that our integrity and character are not in question as well as check the legal aspects of either going with the other offer or going back to our 1st buyer and asking them to match this one. The problem for both of us is $7K is 3/4 of our remaining adoption costs. This really would be SOOOOO huge for us so please pray that God would make HIS path crystal clear to us today. Our realtor is going to be meeting w/his managing broker this a.m. to discuss all of the aspects of this because there do seem to be a number of gray areas here and we all want to make sure we are above reproach on how we handle things or IF we handle things differently. That God...what a kidder! Here's the other fun part - we have someone coming today for a 2nd showing so there's a possibility of maybe even getting a 3rd offer!

Besides the monetary issue, the main reason we're praying about this is because once the 1st buyer started playing games/hardball/whatever you want to call it, I started to have a lack of peace but I attributed that to panic. Now, I'm not sure if maybe God was trying to tell us to let them walk. So needless to say, we desperately need God's wisdom here and are absolutely DEPENDING on Him to be our defender and protector and that He will make His path clear in all of this. Our hope is in Him and we feel incredibly humbled and thankful to have His presence in our lives.

Thanks, everyone, for all of your prayers and stay tuned!!!