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A New View...

3/11/2015

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"By any chance, do you have black granite countertops in the kitchen?"  It must have seemed such a strange and random question! 
Pat's response was straightforward:  "Well, as a matter of fact we do,"  yet her tone spoke of perplexity.  I knew I had to explain...before I knew it we were in the car, driving to view their home in Deerness.  I would soon see firsthand what I had seen in a dream almost two years earlier: 

"I had the strangest and most wonderful dream about discovering a hidden house that was ours...The main feature I remember was the beautifully polished black granite countertop in the kitchen.  I remember running my hand over it, admiring the workmanship.  I told Henry, 'We really should start living here...Only You know the plans you have for us - both here and for eternity.  One thing I know, You are good in ALL Your ways.'" (from my journal entry of May 22, 2012)
As we arrived at Rob and Pat's home, they explained that it had been rebuilt from a stone 'steading' (farmhouse) that was about 150 years old.  We walked through the main entry and to the right, into the dining/kitchen area. There it was...the countertop from my dream!  After our initial viewing that night, we would return in the morning for a daylight introduction to 'Little Halley'.
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All I remember is feeling a peculiar blend of excitement and anxiety.  We had been praying and waiting and searching for SO long.  Could it be our quest was at an end?  We were graciously given the tour, finishing at the west end of the home.  Rob paused at the threshold and commented, "We call this room 'the chapel'." 

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For ten years we had worshiped in 'The Chapel' at Sunrise Medical Campus.  It was a symbol of the Lord's presence that still echoed with heartfelt worship.  I had wrestled with God on my face in that Chapel the day we learned my Dad had gone missing...finally testifying with Job, 'The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.  Blessed be the Name of the Lord.' 

Saying goodbye had not been easy...

This window, almost identical to the Sunrise Chapel window, provided a different view entirely!  Instead of Mount Rainier, we were looking at the convergence of the cliffs of East Mainland Orkney and the North Sea. 

There didn't seem to be much doubt that the Lord had gone before us!  Every avenue we  pursued in our own strength was a dead end.  Then, when we had completely run out of options, the Lord provided for us in an unimaginable way! With guarded excitement, we drove back to The Foveran, where we were staying. 
WE DIDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT...
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Sharon W
4/14/2015 07:23:55 pm

This is so awesome seeing how all of this came together and that you journaled the earlier dreams, visions, scriptures and they were fulfilled, but you had no idea at the time. So exciting!!!

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    Anne Reitzug

    Sojourner.  Servant.  Recipient of undeserved  Grace.  Worshiper.

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