Completely Unexpected

You wake up one morning expecting one thing and then BAM something completely unexpected happens. I woke up last Friday morning expecting a busy day at work, going to the youth Bible Study, home to bed. Not a completely typical day since it has been a while since I've been to a "youth" function but it was what I was expecting. What I wasn't expecting....to get a call from a realtor who wanted to show our house to a couple from Texas today and then an offer from them to buy our house! Hello....this is not usually how it is done. Typically you have your house listed on the market and someone calls to show it, on and on.
To back up a little, our house was listed in realty for six months in the fall and winter. It came off the market in March. We had several realtors call about listing our house for us but we decided to wait, hope the markets pick back up some and re-list this fall. With my husband owning a lawn care business, selling a house and packing up our home and business during the middle of a mowing season just doesn't make sense. Thus our plan to wait until the end of mowing season was in sight and re-list.
However, a realtor was showing this couple from Texas some homes in the area and drove them by our property and let them know it had been listed, didn't sell, but the owners had not re-listed yet. This couple was planning to leave on Friday morning to head back home and called the realtor asking if there was any way she could get in touch with the owners of "that house" so they could look at it today.
Well.....they did get a hold of us. They called a salon (yes, that is still the way to find out who knows who, etc.) where a lady worked that was best friends with a lady who works at the day care where Riley goes. Follow? Anyway, after about three phone calls, the realtor had our cell numbers and called and lined up a showing. I "happened" to be on my way back from Sparta to Cookeville transporting Riley from PreK summer school to daycare when Jason called me. I turned back and headed home to straighten up and unlock the door. About three hours later, Jason calls and says he met the people and they were really nice. AND....they put an offer in on our house!
WHAT???? I was so shocked. My mouth dropped open. I laughed, cried, ran over telling some of my close friends at work. I couldn't believe it. I could not get all of the details from Jason over the phone because I was still at work and expected to be productive those last couple of hours. I did try to be productive but my mind was racing a million miles a minute.
So, we came to arrangements on Saturday and signed the papers. As long as the inspections come through without any problems then we are good to go. And I figure that if God sent some people from Texas to buy our house without a For Sale sign in the yard, then He can make sure all the inspections are alright. And get this....remember the difficulty of moving a home and business in the middle of mowing season....well we were able to make arrangements with the couple for closing in 30 days but the ability to rent from them and stay here until the end of October.

Sometimes we think that we can make such good plans. However, I am learning to take God's unexpected plans, the ones that seem immediately good to me and even the plans that don't, over "my" plans any day.