Dear Cinda,Your post http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2007/cindag419.htm summarizes my feelings also.
Two weeks ago, I closed on a "winter home" in NC. God only knows why and why now! This was going to be a "future" endeavor. The opportunity and my decision to buy came about too quickly. I bought it sight-unseen. It is the most expensive property I've purchased to date. I paid cash, selling some stock, and reducing my monthly income by selling some bonds. All possible obstacles to the purchase magically disappeared. I am a real estate investor. It is uncharacteristic for me to make real estate business decisions mainly from an emotional perspective, but I did.
The reasoning was: 1) I'm too old to spend more cold winters "up north" and I want to live close to my grandkids. 2) It's better for my elderly parents (I'm taking them with me) to be in a warmer climate. 3) I need a change - my father is a stroke patient, suffering with dementia. After seven years, my mother is totally stressed out. She will not put him in a nursing home and I, living one block away, am on-call 24/7. She fires half the caregivers I hire. But, there is nobody to look after their interests and well-being except me. 4) I hear a call to action, convinced that, for me, maintaining the status quo and "putting in time" until the rapture is not what the Lord meant by "occupy" until He returns. He seems to be urging me to make something happen. Someplace there's a fight to be won.
Like everyone at five doves, I've been waiting and watching for the Lord to come for a long time and expect Him very soon. So, I've racked my brain trying to figure out why He seems to be pushing me to make this move. It seems like a potentially good business and personal decision for the future. BUT, I think the "future" will shortly be interrupted and the world will change. It seems obscene to spend my time concerned with buying furniture and the machanics of the move - unless there is some quick mission the Lord wants me to undertake. I am running on faith.
Blessing
Marie Komar