Izabella Update

For those of you who are interested in all that is Izabella...
The architectural drawings are FINALLY AT CODES! Of course, there is no date to hope for actually getting our approval. This has been the most difficult lessons in continually crawling back onto the alter. Lots of days, multiple times during the day, I must make a conscious effort to let go of my expectations on timing. God's mind is so far beyond mine... But there IS finally tangible progress.

It is facinating to me how much God must have in mind for this new space. For all these long months fighting with the City over parking, there has been a lull. Waiting. It's almost like all of heaven has been holding it's breath. We've all been in a holding pattern. And now that there is finally forward momentum, all hell has broken loose again. The enemy is back to wageing a full on assalt.

New landlord has decided he wants to ignore the fact that we have a signed lease. He has been showing the property. And yesterday he wanted me to sign a different lease...and destroy the old one. It was an amazing exchange really. From me searching and finding at the very last minute the original lease; to he with that document in his hand screaming he had to destroy it... And no, I am not exagerating there. He was screaming. Waving it in his hand, "I have to destroy this one! You can't have this! You can't have this!" Looking back on it all I can say is, "Wow. God MUST have something BIG planned!" Because the enemy would not be this violent otherwise. And how utterly bizarre. A self professed Christian man, business owner, doctor...waving my lease in the air, screaming at me. But as God had found that lease mere minutes before, I was not backing down! Rational. Calm. Firm. All the things I had prayed for before I walked into his office. God is so amazing! How I got out of there with the original is ONLY a God thing! Miracle. Nothing short of miraculous.

And so we wait. But may be able to start loading in materials next week! (should I let myself be excited yet?)