The transparent pitfalls

The process began to present the evidence of a building growing out of the ground and the reality of my dream unfolding was beginning to settle in on me.

Living with agitated neighbors who let their anger bubble over into their children who felt that being ornery to us would change anything that God had been planning for almost 20 years was a hard way of living for me.

I needed to focused on the positive and ignore the children and their little pranks of throwing their garbage into our yard, stealing whatever they could get their hands on and their parents coaxing the road commissioner into putting up no parking signs along the small road that made it hard on the carpenters since the lot was so muddy and wet. The same commissioner refused us access from the small road but luckily we were on a corner lot and faced a county highway also and within an hour they met me at the lot filled out the permit and gave us an access road. This was just a few things that we had to overlook and keep our heads up.

Who would ever thought that trying to serve the elderly would be such a problem?

God continues to win the battles!

True intent of the heart

It matters little what we think we are doing because God has a purpose for each of us. We can be patient, understanding and submit to him or we can make our life hell on earth screaming all the way "I'm not going to do it." or we can take a positive attitude about his hand in our lives and not only have wonderful loving life serving him but serving others as well.

The zoning process was made difficult but God overcame. The next step was finding the perfect financial institution to back the project. In the beginning our own bank wanted the business so we were confident that the funding was there. The planning began.

The first meeting with the architect was almost a bust. After he called our home a nursing home for the fourth time I had to clear the air. "If you can't get the vision of a nursing home out of your head then we may as well call it a day." "If you can't wow me when I step into the front door of the building then I don't want it." From that moment on he was on a roll. The 18 foot ceiling in the sixty by sixty great room that included a huge double sided fireplace and north wall totally covered with large windows. Now he was getting the picture!