We purchased 11.40 acres in our home state of Georgia just shy of a year ago.  How it all came about had the Lord's hand written all over it.  It may be years before we are able to build a home on the property and relocate, but yesterday brought a bit of exciting news.  We were contacted by a family that owns land a few properties past ours.  The last existing electric pole is two properties above ours.  This particular family is building a cabin on their property and have proceeded forward with getting electricity run to it.  They are seeking our permission to have power lines run on our property right by the road.  We will be receiving paperwork to review and sign in the coming days, but this would be hugely beneficial to us if it is truly as it has been described and explained to me.  It was our plan to bring the power lines along the road and then back onto our property where we hope to build.  We were told that the electric company will do so many feet at no charge, but we would then have to pay a certain $ amount beyond that.  Because the last existing electric pole sits quite a distance off the road, we would use up all of our 'free allotment' just bringing the power lines to the starting edge of our property.  Running back from the road to where we want to place a house would have cost us approximately $2,000-$2,500 (as it was explained to us).

If this family can obtain all the signatures/permissions needed, we would then have an existing power pole at the front of our property and could use our 'free allotment' in running lines to our home site.  That would be an enormous blessing to us!  Once this family obtains our signatures, they need signatures/permissions from two other properties (one being a property that we would have to get permission from if it was us going through this process) and it's all a done deal.  Unfortunately, this may be difficult.  The owners of the property between ours and the existing power pole will not return telephone calls or correspondence by this family or the electric company (the owners live on the west coast).  The other property in question is part of an inheritance and the beneficiaries are not 'in the know' concerning the property.  At least that is what has been told to me.  Nonetheless, this is something that we can definitely start praying about.  It could turn out to be another enormous blessing from the Lord.