Just a little note....Pat and I for over a decade discussed retiring at a little farm.... and taking in wounded animals.... and creating a community with miniature donkeys and ponies, zebras and goats. Emus and ostriches, ducks and chickens. Horses and llamas.

Here I am.
Patti has to be laughing from above: I stumbled literally into a perfect living situation as I wondered what to do. 

I had a plan.

I keep checking in with the Lord, as my hearing is not so great... :) but my patience really is. I can wait on the Lord.

I was set to head to see a condo at the beach. Over priced. Not beach front. Ruby was an extra consideration.
The real hesitation: "I am a 77 year old that looks like a 57 year old and acts like a 27 year old."
YIKES. 

But I knew I needed to get situated, even temporarily.

Then Saturday morning at 7:00 when I turned on my phone as my espresso was espressing for my early departure... I had a text.
"My BOYFRIEND (???) decided that an extra dog would be too much."

Yes, the BOYFRIEND would be too much. Never spoken of. 
Was he 77, 57, or 27...

YIKES.
Thank you God.

And still, here I was again with no plan.

7:05 in the morning.
And I sang.
I danced.
I worshipped.
And I LAID it on the feet of the Lord, saying that

I PROMISE to not be fearful, so help me.
I PROMISE to remember You have control, so take care of me.
I PROMISE to wait for Your Word, so occupy me.

Pslam 24:14
Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD!

At 12:05 Saturday, I relented in prayer.
I had moved from asking and asking to all the way just knowing yes had been achieved.
My own private little Idaho, my own secret place experience.

I turned to my laptop and for the 10,000th time I opened the exact same website.... and suddenly (Always, I think of Pastor Locke ; "SUDDENLY!") there was this listing. And suddenly I was on a call with an animal farm with a woman who had a room they never rent, as they wait on a "fringe" wildly happy odd person to rent it to.

ME.

$700.00

Here it is.

DON'T TELL ME THERE IS NO GOD.
DON'T TELL ME HE HAS NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
DON'T TELL ME THERE ARE NO MIRACLES ANY LONGER.
MY ENTIRE LIFE ITSELF IS SO FULL OF ONE MIRACLE TO ANOTHER.