When the floor falls and you're floored (revealing your flaws)

For the last four years we've been paying $75 a week rent. That's right, I haven't missed any digits, just $75. This was not for a shoe box or a garage but what I would describe as a 2-3 bedroom house, with recently renovated bathroom and kitchen. Air-conditioning, large backyard, carport and a outback loo to boot! (Yes, that is our house above.)

Sadly, the generous lady owner has died. Her family understandably wants to sell quickly. That means we are out of here in the next month or two.

For some unknown reason, the Bible college we are attending next year is in one of the more expensive parts of town (before any toffs* complain, Newtown is expensive compared to anything west of there). In Newtown, for $75 we could probably rent a car parking space during office hours. So our budget is now down the toilet as well as a planned trip with the in-laws to visit family in the US next year. This current development and the location of Moore college has actually for the first time got us thinking more seriously about moving to Brisbane. But between moving churches, support networks, and starting Bible college, we were hoping that staying in our house would be the one constant. God has better ideas. I think a move of cities would be just too much.

God has been very great in providing so abundantly (and affordably) for us for the first four years of our marriage. But it's still hard not to be anxious about moving and finding an affordable place in the current market. Today has really revealed to me my trust and comfort and security that I find in things rather than in God to provide things.

*According to wikipedia;

In British English slang, a toff is a mildly derogatory term for someone with an aristocratic background, particularly someone who exudes an air of superiority. For instance, The Toff, a character from the series of adventure novels by John Creasey is an upper-class crime sleuth, who uses a common caricature of a toff - a line drawing with a top hat, monocle, bow-tie and cigarette with a holder - as his calling card.

The word toff is thought to come from the word tuft, which was a gold tassel worn by titled undergraduates at Oxford University or Cambridge University.