My nugget!

So I know this is going to be kind of long and there's no pics, but I wanted to share a little "nugget" from God.

Do you get little "nuggets" from God? I'm so glad He gives us these little special blessings that are so private and personal and are just for us. So here's my story about a recent nugget.

A little background--
2009 was a hard year--if you've read my blog very much you already know that.
We looked at houses during the summer and ended up deciding it wasn't the right time.
I'm working pretty hard to get my CPA license.

So a few situations happened near the end of the fall that made me think maybe it might be time to look at houses again. I won't go into all the details of what they were, but more than one factor went into the decision to even look. So we started praying about it and specifically asked Him to let it happen easily if it was in accordance with His plan for us. I also asked Him to block it all and let me know if it wasn't right. I finished fall semester of school on Dec 14 and was registered for an online class to begin Jan 19. So in my thinking, I needed to find a house and be moved during that 5 weeks. Just couldn't see how I could handle work, moving, and school all at the same time. So we found THE house on Dec 23 after only a couple of trips with the realtor.

So it almost always takes about a month to get all the loose ends tied for a home closing. So I reluctantly agreed to closing on Jan 22 and giving the sellers a couple days to move out. So we wouldn't be able to move until the end of Jan. But all else was going so well, and I had to face reality that it was totally impossible to think we could be moved in and settled before Jan 19. I delayed officially dropping that class and internally struggled over this until less than 1 week before the closing. And so I ended up moving the class to begin Mar 22 along with another class all the while knowing that I was totally stupid to think I could take 2 fast paced classes during the worst part of tax season. So I was just holding on to my plan and figured I would end up dropping one of them before they started.

So we ended up closing on the house on Jan 19--the day school was supposed to start. AND I got an email from the instructor of the "delayed" class giving us the entire 8 weeks of work and told us we could start whenever we wanted to. AND that was my "nugget." Only God really understood how badly I wanted to stay on target with school. Only God knew that I really just needed 2 or 3 week delay, not 8. So He whispered in my ear--"I've got a way. You can start whenever you get settled." I set a goal for myself to start working on it by Feb 15. I hope to have most if not all completed before the course officially begins.

Now I have started on the work and am once again overwhelmed with how wonderful God is to work out the details of my life, if I simply follow Him.