John 10:28-30 - I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” In the mid 70's there was a television show called "Kung Fu" about a young man learning that skill. Part of his training was trying to grab a pebble out of one of his teacher's hands before the teacher closed it. Eventually the young man was...

At some point near my last house hunt post here, I learned about an old house forum and although I still visited and posted on this site's forum, I never kept up with the house hunt story here. There's a rather long and detailed thread on the old house forum, though.

Long story short, we bought a different house than the one I wrote of back when. Our house hunt actually turned into quite the adventure for us.

Even though we initially viewed our home in October of...