As you may or may not have heard, we have recently been dealing with a dilemma.  We found the “perfect” land on which to have our next home built upon – it’s a lot within a nice neighborhood, in the same suburban city we’re in now, just a few miles closer to the metropolitan one.  It faces in directions where the views would be just gorgeous & the sun would never be shining directly in our eyes.  The problem was that someone had put a “claim” on it, merely days before we did.  When we tried to put a deposit down on it (which was thankfully fully refundable), the person who had claimed it first made the decision to buy & they had “first dibs”.  So, we decided to look elsewhere.  We looked all around our area, going 20 or more miles in all directions, but nothing compared to that specific lot we’d set our sights on, to begin with.  Just when we were feeling like we were ready to give up, we received a call from the homebuilders we’d chosen, to let us know that the lot next door had opened up!  There are actually 3 in a row on that corner of the street that have yet to be built upon.  We were originally told that the other 2 surrounding “our lot” had been taken for quite a while.  However, the sale fell through on one of them, so it is now ours!  It’s so interesting to me how God works, sometimes!  Jeremy believes things had to happen this way, in order for us to fully appreciate the great piece of land that we are getting & now, the people that got “our lot” will actually be our neighbors!  It may sound kinda’ funny, but I think that is with good reason, as well.  They must be “like-minded” to us, at least a little bit, if they had the foresight to call the land developer, merely days before, the same way that Jeremy did, to ask about that lot.  I think we will all get along wonderfully!  The house plan itself is coming together rather well, too.  It’s going to be quite a process, but we’re sure the finished product will be totally worth it!