no regrets..

 

Because my oldest just asked me when I started this blogging obsession...I looked it up and here's my first entry.  How have I done since then? Well, there's always room for improvement.

Then I decided to compare my attitude from today to what it was like a year ago..read about it here. In all honesty I might not have been as gracious today, then again I don't know..

It's neat to look back to see where you were and what you've become through times of change.

Just today while I sat in my living room watching both my dh and dad roll in the 3oolbs homemade fireplace..I reflected on how three years ago there was only plywood flooring and very bare walls with the blackest of black tar paper covering it not to mention the metal roof was our ceiling..seriously we lived in a shell.

The house structural beams were exposed and not one comfortable place to kick up your heels after a long day, in fact we only had a master bedroom to do that in and it was crammed packed with our sofa; TV center;  bunk beds and the kids one toy box..it was also the only place you could be warm or cool.

Can you say d-e-p-r-e-s-s-i-n-g ?

Yes it was our choice to do this the debt~free way but it was not an easy task to go through.

Now I can sit in the living room and see an almost completed home filled to the brim with God's blessing of one thing to another. From the staircase HE guided my dh's hands to make, to the paint brush HE inspired me to use to paint our stair wall with in a deep chocolate looking paint alongside the wood like flooring that even our kids were inspired to help put down..not to forget the the next to nothing pinewood ceilings throughout, that we would have never afforded so soon.

And the list goes on and on..I've thought of writing a book called "Building a house of faith" for our families reading pleasure.

Finally I can breath a sigh of relief that things change and mostly for the better..this is why I have no regrets.

 

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

                     Hebrews 12:2  KJV