Good things come to those who wait, Day 212

Preface: This blog is not to encourage procrastination of which I’m a fond observer.

Jesse and I had wanted new couches for a long time. Ours were very worn, dirty, and broken in several places. They were comfortable but hideous. We stopped at furniture stores advertising sales on a few different occasions. But we quit charge cards at least a year ago and Dave Ramsey say’s no interest for ____ amount of days is a horrible scam and to run the other way. To make a long story short we waited, and waited, and kept waiting and suddenly some friends of ours asked if we wanted to buy their used but excellent condition leather couches from them for $100. We jumped at the offer, have two excellent leather couches and saved potentially thousands of dollars.

We purchased our home from Jesse’s Grandma. The carpet was original to the almost 60 year old house. It had faded at least 4 shades from its glory days. There were stains like you wouldn’t believe all throughout the pastel peachy shag (turned a tan brownish color). We talked about buying new carpet on numerous occasions but we waited and waited and kept waiting. Then one day Maggie devoured a purple pen (one with the free flowing liquid that you can see through the pens side window). Jesse called the insurance company and discovered that our carpet was covered under our homeowner’s policy. Jesse’s mother graciously paid the deductible and wahla we had brand new carpet at no cost to us.

Jesse had been begging and hinting and begging and hinting about us getting a new BIG TV for years. I had always said, “No. End of story. Our TV is fine.” Until one day a good friend of Jesse’s got a brand new ridiculously expensive new television set AND offered Jesse his old (HUGE) television set. Now we have an enormous television just like Jesse’s always dreamed of at no cost to us.

Lastly, our washer and dryer are quite old. The washer had been having troubles for a good amount of time before it finally quit. We talked on several occasions about buying a new one but we continually concluded that as long as it was running it would be wasteful to replace it. Only a few days after it died some good friends of ours offered us a second washer that they had at no cost to us.

First and foremost I wholeheartedly believe that God has generously blessed us for having patience and we have some incredible friends who’ve blessed us beyond belief. The moral of these 4 stories (which I’ve probably shared before) is that good things really do come to those who wait. With the exception of our brand new carpet all of the above mentioned items were previously used but they’re new to us. They’re each very nice and useful items (honestly all things we use daily). We couldn’t be happier about the money we’ve saved by acquiring them. The list of pluses just goes on and on.

These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due season. Ps. 104:27