Making the right choice

Karen and I really like our house. There is lots of space, it's close to our church and we have great neighbors. On the other hand, we don't like having a mortgage. A considerable portion of our pay cheque gets sucked up with the mortgage, leaving less room for other things. So over the years we've questioned whether we should have moved or not. If we were still in our little townhouse, we would have had the mortgage paid off by now. Leaving aside the increase in the property value of our new house, this week past helped us to understand that we'd made the right choice. The rains that followed Hurricane Frances were the worst in a long while. We had a little water leak in around one of the upstairs windows, as a result of driving horizontal rains. However, our old house was flooded... by a sewer backup. Yes, there are a couple of feet of raw sewage in the basement of all the houses in that row. I took a drive past today, and everyone has their possessions out on the lawn being washed off and dried. Since my collection of Christian books was formerly in the basement of the townhouse, I would have lost a considerable number of hard to replace volumes. Looks like we made the right choice.