Article August 14, 2006 Issue

SIGNING ON THE DOTTED LINE

BY DANIS COLLETT MUTCHLER

The Christian Science Monitor

THE REALTOR was at our house. My husband had just signed the contract to sell our home, and now it was my turn to sign. But I couldn't do it. I was crying. It just felt so awful to fail.

About five years before, we'd fallen in love with some land in the country that felt special to us—gentle and spacious and homey. It would also stretch our budget. Before we bought it, we prayed about whether this was a wise thing to do.

Even though we really wanted to live on that land, we felt we needed to be willing to sacrifice this desire if it wasn't our Father's plan for us. But it felt as if we should go ahead and buy it, so we happily did.

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