The big move

Without going into detail, it looks like the beautiful house I live in is sold. It passed the inspection. We’re waiting for the bank appraisal. Until the deed is done, it’s not done, and yet it seems done. I sit and wait for finality.

I feel like I’m in a mystery novel. By July 27, I have to be out, yet it’s anyone’s guess when the house is legally the new owner’s, if, indeed, the sale does go through.  A very nice young couple with a six-week old baby, a very special couple, I think, yet when do we know with finality that Heaven Admin and I are moving out and the new owners moving in!

The funding for the motor home is not yet in place, or this would be the perfect time for Heaven Admin and I to move into a hybrid motor home and start the Oneness Journey across the U.S. and down into Latin and South America and to Capilla del Monte, Argentina, where Heaven Admin will build a beautiful sustainable spiritual center and where he has invited me to stay. Isn’t that a beautiful thing?

Add to the date of actual day of sale mystery, there is also Heaven Admin’s visa expiration mystery! Will Heaven Admin have to leave the U.S. by the end of August? If so, he will have to wait some months before re-entering U.S.  Time may not exist, but it sure does play a heavy hand in the relative world!

So much is unsettled, and we may not know what is what until the last minute.

We went to look at a small apartment that sounded nice in an old house that looked nice from the outside — it’s actually on the same street I live on now — and this place turned out to be uninhabitable. The steep stairs going up to the apartment had a fifty-year old carpet that I swear had never been cleaned its whole life.  I am not exactly hung-up on cleanliness etc. but no one would want their worst shoes to walk up that carpet.  The kitchen was hardly a kitchen, and the little pseudo-counter was covered with old worn-out scruffy wrinkly contact paper long past its prime. I shudder to think of this place.

If Heaven Admin and I don’t find a place to live jointly for what may be only a month — he would be fine, of course, but how desolate I would be so close and yet so far from Heaven Admin. It is unbelievable how he feeds my heart and soul and tummy. No one is more spoiled than I. And no one enjoys every minute of spoiling more than I.

The possibility exists for me to move into Senior Housing for people over fifty-five where Heaven Admin cannot go. There are two senior housing places in Fairfield.  They do have openings. They are really old lady places with huge lobbies filled with rocking chairs.   Although there are some beautiful active people who ride bicycles etc., it feels a little bit to me like it’s a stopping off place before you drop the body.

We do have an ace in the hole, however, that also brings its own complications.  A dear friend owns and lives in an old mansion, and he would temporarily let us each have a room. And we don’t have to give him advanced notice, so that is beautiful. The rooms are furnished, of course which leaves the question: Do I have to put some things earmarked for Argentina into storage and my bed, for instance, in case I do later move into an apartment? There is also the downside of the possibility of having to move twice in a short span of time.

Then, add to the mix, if the Oneness Journey has to be put on hold for a while, my daughter would like me to move to Chicago and be near her.

Many open-ended questions. What to do?

Posted by Gloria on July 5th, 2010 under these topics
Travel, Purely Personal, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Ginger Nelson on July 5, 2010

Hi, dear Gloria,
Been thinking of you.
Just read here at the Godwriting blog about things moving forward with the house already sold.

Sounds like there are a few good options in view to begin with ~ your friend offering a room in a mansion right here in town, available to meet any immediate need, as well as an invitation to join your daughter Lauren up in Chicago.

Perhaps some of the good local storage available could help to meet the need at hand with furnishings while sorting out and deciding what the next step is.

Know it’s just a time of shifting gears, getting freed up from the house and moving forward to something better.

We found that a move helped to lighten up some of the enormous load of earthly baggage.
We’re in our 7th home (celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary here).
With ea move we got lighter ….though still tackling a back log of paper, etc.

Sure hope everything comes together very well for you and for Senor, Santhan.
Best to you both.
Wishing great good luck with all.
Take good care.
Love,
Ginger

Reply from Gloria on July 5, 2010

Blessed Ginger, thank you for your thoughtful response. Yes, I know the freeing up that letting go of possessions offers. There are treasures that become possessions, and, at some point, just things. What do we really need?

When you had to move the last time, when was the sale of the house definitely definite? How much notice did you have?

I resist storing things. I don’t like the whole concept. I know people who have stored things and paid more for storage than the items cost in the first place, and then finally gave away or sold what they had stored.

I would keep my bed only in case I rent later and need a bed!

Yes, some decisions to make! I’ll keep you posted. And thanks again for your expansive response.

Loving you,

Gloria

Reply from Ginger Nelson on July 5, 2010

Dear Gloria, Good for you, allowing yourself to be freed up from your possessions. Living lightly is something I continually aim for. Am not much for the idea of storage either. Was just a thought if a temporary practical solution might be needed.

We had a generous amount of time pre-planned for 60 days. The new home owner offered to extend that even more ….to 90 days! Worked out very well for us ~ had been there for 11 yrs and had our Computer Services office started there as well with lots to orchestrate for a move.

Think it’s usually been a mutually agreed upon time between home owners thru the Realtor. With our previous residence before the last one we had just 30 days from the moment we got word that the house was sold while on a trip out of state. That was wild!

Wishing you a smooth time with much good luck.
Love to you
Ginger

Reply from Lynda on July 6, 2010

Gloria, you sound a bit scared or perhaps anxious. Your blog is unanswered questions…
I know a bit of how you are feeling. And that is the most unsettling. I don’t know how long you have lived in your lovely home, but I am guessing a number of years. And maybe that is where you began Heavenletters.

What do want to have happen? Have you asked God? Have you asked the potential new owners what closing date they want?
I’m not sure if things are a bit different in the states, but here, generally when an offer if submitted (many come in with pre-approved mortgages so the guess work of financing doesn’t enter in)the seller has a closing date in mind. The buyer may ask for a different date, and then they negotiate.
Sounds to me as though you just need to work it out.

My thoughts and prayers are with you while you sort everything through.

Reply from Charles Fines on July 6, 2010

And so today’s message from God starts out, “Innocence means expecting nothing, enjoying the unexpected, taking delight in surprise.” I’m not very good at that. The message goes on with a number of things that I’m not very good at doing. But I’m trying.

I remember a movie about an old woman whose house and land where she had always lived was going to be permanently flooded by a huge government dam project. She probably had a different spelling in mind for “dam”.

The end of the movie had her moved in to her new home with the help of a sympathetic government agent. She went out on her new porch and sat in her rocking chair. When the agent came out onto the porch shortly after, she was sitting there, her body having died.

Not suggesting in any way that this move is going to kill you, just saying how much that movie resonated with me. I am also up in the air about where I am going to spend the rest of my life and mostly deal with it by trying not to think about it. I don’t think that is quite what God meant in today’s message.

I am so glad that I got to spend some time last spring in your house so that I have an image to go with all the stories. I know that whatever happens, God will be providing for and taking care of his messenger. Possibly not exactly as you might have planned it out.

Bless you and Santhan, there should be some flowers to enjoy every day while you are still there, and maybe a bunny or two. You can take that with you.

Reply from Gloria on July 6, 2010

Dear kind friends,

Charles, I am so glad that you were here too! That’s nice. I have fond memories of you here and your Godwriting as well.

Not only do we have lots of bunnies, we have deer! One day I saw a family of four or five deer walk by on the patio right outside my office windows!

There are flowers all the time here and the beautiful play of sunlight on all the green.

Lynda, yes, it is here that Godwriting began. I love Godwriting here. I have also done Godwriting at airports, in hotels, in various countries, in a moving car, and God hasn’t faltered once. I would be leaving here anyway for Argentina, and that also is only a question of when.

Be assured that I am ready to leave here and go on for further adventure. It is not my desire to stay here forever. I like going places!

The date was agreed to long before I realized the closing was not imminent.

I don’t think my hang-up is in moving. I think it is in not knowing yet for sure that I have to be out July 27. The slight possibility that the sale won’t go through leaves me up in the air. It didn’t occur to me that I would know only at the last minute — or a week ahead. That old non-existent time has me in its spell.

I’m an old hand at parting with things and places, dear ones. I am attached to the spiritual books for the Spiritual Center in Argentina. And I am attached to the company of Heaven Admin.

Since I wrote the blog, unless I move directly to Senior Housing, I will let go of the bed, my daughter’s beautiful dining table and the beautiful dining chairs that my dear friend Bev Herman gave me when she moved. I will keep a couple of fans for the interim, good cast iron pans etc., clothes and shoes, purses, a few paintings, computer stuff and keep letting go of what I must.

I keep telling myself that if I knew now for sure that the sale will go through, I would have the zip to tackle the sorting and packing and washing windows etc. I have only gotten so far as getting boxes!

Lauren is coming in next weekend to help and also clear out any remaining odds and ends she still has left here.

(Ginger, I probably won’t be organized the way you are, but when was I ever?!!!)

I will keep you all posted on everything!

Loving you,

Gloria

Reply from Normand Bourque on July 6, 2010

Dear Gloria,
isn’t amazing that when we read God’s letters or Godwriting answers, everything seems so enlightened, clear, straightforward, yet it is only when we are caught in very down to earth issues that we can actually experiment these words. And the very first feelings are not exactly “enlightening”. Remember the Little Dandelion.

Reply from Jack van Raders on July 6, 2010

Gloria Just be your self and trust God all is Love so love it all lessons and funny happenings all has a raeson and say thank you and GOD I TRUST YOU thank you God Love to all Jack

Reply from Diana Call on July 16, 2010

Dearest Gloria,

The heat is on! Is it ever! You are feeling it, we all are feeling it in our life?
The Planet, it appears, is also turning up its speed of recycling outmoded and unsustainable and unhealthy systems and structures. Even I felt challenged to my limits on many levels during the last month, beginning with the break-down of my website, a stolen purse with all my personal identifications, phone, i-pod, and just the other day, I was blessed with a burnt out turbo charger in my Volvo. Additionally, my move on July 1st took place during record temperatures in the F100s. I felt my brain beginning to chill and my body to freak out. Last but not least, the clinic in New York where I am having major dental work done, created a big mess during the process and, in addition to my heavy German accent I am now dealing with a speech impediment.

However, here is a link to remind us to keep everything in perspective when we think we have reason to complain.

Unfortunately, it is a pdf file and I cannot include it in this message.

Much light and love to all of you out there who are embracing and are actually enjoying the ride in the spinning cycle of the cosmic washing machine.

DIANA

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