It had been four months since I last blogged. So many things happened since then. Good things. Thank God that Joshua did well in his primary school leaving exams (PSLE) and got into a school of his choice! Initially we hoped that he would choose Catholic High School but in the end he chose Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) instead. We prayed about it and sensed that God was leading him to HCI so we supported his decision. The only thing was the school was in Bukit Timah Road, which was very far from our home in Hougang.
In fact before his secondary school posting was confirmed, we already went about our house hunting. We felt that our season at Rio Vista was ending soon and a new season was beginning. God seemed to be leading us out of our home after staying for eight years. It wasn’t a coincidence that we also stayed in our first matrimonial flat for eight years before moving to Rio Vista. I sensed the Lord telling me to start preparing for the house moving even though Joshua had not confirmed his secondary school.
In fact, after the PSLE was over, I felt prompted to start clearing out some old stuff to make way for the new. After all I had to clear away all the worksheets and old textbooks after Joshua graduated from primary school. So I went on to clear some old clothes and stuff from our store room. The recurring message I received last Oct was to let go of old baggage to make room for the new things coming. So I happily went about doing that without knowing what God had in store for us.
It was amazing how God accelerated the entire house hunting process. Within ten days of our first viewing, we managed to rent a unit in Bukit Timah that we all liked. It wasn’t easy to get a consensus on a place that all of us liked but God’s handiwork was in the entire process. And so on the last day of 2018, we signed the tenancy agreement and took over the unit on 6 Jan. And we started staying in the new place so as to make it convenient for Joshua to go to school. He only needed 10 min to travel to and from school as compared to 50 min if we stayed in Rio Vista.
We officially shifted over all our stuff on 15 Jan. Initially I was worried about how long it would take to the rent out our Rio Vista unit but God also expedited the process. On the same day that we took over the unit at Bukit Timah, God confirmed the tenants for our old home. Things fell into place very fast. It had been a busy month packing up, clearing away old stuff and moving to this new place. After we moved over, we focused on cleaning up our old home to be handed over on 1 Feb. After our Rio Vista unit was handed over, we could finally catch a breather.
Not long after the Chinese New Year came and we were again busy with the festivities. At the same time we were settling into this new neighbourhood. Joshua was also settling into his new school. Although there were many changes and we were in transition, thank God that we are more or less settled in now. We are still exploring this new neighbourhood but beginning to like it because of the abundance of good hawker fares and nice eateries. We really love this new home because it is newer, brighter and windier even though it is smaller. The condo environment is also very elegant and stylish.
Really thank God for giving our family this beautiful place to live in! And it wasn’t that our old home wasn’t beautiful or good anymore. It was just that the season had changed and we had to move on. The changes were massive and inconvenient but when God called, we had to move. It was definitely an out of comfort zone experience but I welcomed it because I had been waiting for changes in my life for a very long time. God has also prepared my heart so I could embrace the change and move swiftly. Honestly if I hadn’t responded by clearing my old place and sourcing for furniture, we would be ill prepared to move so quickly. God is really good.
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