(Response to TV Show Viewers: Post 19 - March 6, 2026)
Faith is prevailing, a source of power that can skootch someone outside of their comfort zone with certainty in their head and heart that they are under the watchful eyes and loving hands of heaven. Some may say that my relocating to the unknown before buying houses that others didn’t want, properties sitting vacant for years and sometimes decades, were multiple leaps of faith.
I think those are spot on takes.
Although
I spent years working, studying, and planning for my first house project,
faithfulness was a factor leading me to the closing table to sign the ownership
documents and then with me until I sold that first home. And declarations from
bystanders that my plans were “impossible,” became opportunities to lean into
my spiritual convictions.
Chapter
17 from the bible’s book of Matthew was in my head throughout this and the
pig’s ear renovations that came after. “If you have faith the size of a mustard
seed…nothing will be impossible.” And Philippians 4:13 that teaches, “I can do
all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Or “If God is for us, who can be
against us?” Romans 8:31. These, more than other scriptures, ping ponged in my
head regularly.
Fast
forwarding to 2013 and the decision of how I should respond to the home
improvement networks’ Director of Original Programming and Development,
that faith was just as much in play. Those beliefs and values had gotten me to
that point of my life and career, and they were woven into my willingness to
submit a video to HGTV/DIY without specifics. And Diann was in stride, making
these decisions and steps forward frictionless. As consideration was underway
for more unknowns and undefined, there was deep rooted confidence that I was
still in good hands moving ahead.
So, for those who feel as if sending in a video with our children up into the cyber clouds was irresponsible, you may feel better by taking it up with the carpenter of heaven.
