How God has saved me from myself

           All my life I have been addicted to stress.  I will acknowledge most times I put it on myself.  I completely over kill when I am on task for a project.  When I chose to do something I go big.  When I mean go big I will kill myself to make perfection.  As I am getting wiser in my years I am learning perfection is never achieved because it doesn't exist.  When I get stressed my household turns upside down and this is where god steps in.  This year has been one of the most stressful years of my life and I chose this.  Brent and I chose to put our house up for sale and we chose to buy another house that needed lots of love.  We chose this house because it was a blank canvas for me, my husband knows me well.  He knew that no house would be my dream house unless I completely designed it myself.  When we went through this house we loved the layout.  It was a blank canvas for me to paint my forever house.  Achieving a dream always comes with paying a price.  The price we paid was being completely stress to the max during the first five months of this year.  This is where god comes in.  We prayed that god would help us on our journey.  We did not pray for selling our house.  We did not pray for getting a new house, or getting the new house cheaper.  I prayed that god would guide me down the path that would be best for my family, while staying closer to him.  I prayed that this stress would not lead me to crazy town but bring our family closer.  

            I feel like the stress of buying and selling a house and even most of all home renovations can leave you and your spouse screaming at each other.   God total answered my prayers.  After nine years of marriage Brent and I are finally on the same team when it comes to projects.  On previous projects, one of us would have to leave the house while the other worked.  God has taught us to pick each other up while the other was down and most of all has taught me to be a better wife.  I am truly amazed by my husband and what he can accomplish with no experience.  The best part of this adventure is when he is baffled he can ask my advice and together we can conquer this house while giving it our love.  I know this dream would not be possible without the guidance of our heavenly father.  He has tamed the addiction I have to stress and the over powering chaos it creates in our house.

      So I just want to keep it real, we are all human, and I want to give props to the only one who can save us from ourselves our heavenly father.

So remember when those house projects make you so mad that you want to scream, take a step back and remember who you are screaming at.