Overwhelmed.
That is the best word to describe what I am feeling right now.
Emotions are running high.
Overwhelmed.
Another big dream is about to materialize and we can only thank and praise God for it!
We are one step closer to getting our dream home! Our own home!
The past week was the peak of our discernment process.
In my last blog entry, I told you that I, we, were willing to wait and see if everything will fall into place.
And it did.
Our plans of buying our first home has happened earlier than we have planned.
Proves that God's plans for us far better than what we have for ourselves!
After we met with the broker almost two weeks ago, we had the impression and got to a conclusion that it's not yet time for us. We were still thankful for that meeting as it paved the way for us to set our financial goals so we are better prepared when another opportunity comes. That was Tuesday, 21 January.
Long weekend. Even if we were sure that it will be impossible for us to buy, much more try, a home on the 8 Feb release, we kept on praying for it. Over the long weekend, we went to the Sales Office and hubby got the plans and prices of the home and land packages for the upcoming release.
Seeing the prices, our dreams came crashing down at us again as the prices has increased tremendously from their last release end of November 2013. The cheapest now is $544k and the most expensive ones were somewhere around $720++ thousand!
Another reason for us to give up, right?
We really didn't give up 100% because we kept on praying and discerning for it, still.
And in His goodness, He sent people our way to help us arrive at a decision, to gamble.
My friend Vera got the actual land value of the package and it gave us hope!
The funny thing is, the ideas to continue trying came in dreams and very early morning! As my friend puts it, a Eureka moment!
Alvin and I haven't really told one another to make computations and see if we can work out something, financially. But when he gets home from work, he starts talking about the topic and lo and behold, we have, on our own made some plans on how we can possibly try to work it out. And from there, we sit down and discuss Plans A, B and C. Including the implications for each. I've never had a more interesting discussion than the ones we had last week! Maths. Big Time!
Mid of last week, we have our eyes set on a particular lot which costs $560thou. We were ready to gamble but there was fear in our hearts. First, it will deplete our savings and I REALLY need to have plenty of casual work to have enough funds before the land settlement late this year. This is just in case the amount being loaned to us by the bank doesn't meet the amount we need. And another implication is we REALLY need to sell our lot in Manila.
But God in His goodness had a different plan for us.
