So continuing my post from last week about God causing all things to work together for the good of those who love Him, is the story about my husband's layoff in 2008. At the time that Steve was laid off, the real estate market had just crashed. And normally one incident would not have had anything to do with the other…normally. But this was not a normal situation. You see, my husband’s wife had leveraged our home at the height of the housing boom (the house that we’d almost paid off), pulling out over $350,000 in equity. And like Eve who convinced Adam to eat the apple, I’d convinced Steve to purchase preconstruction properties (more than one). The goal was that we would make a wad of money and retire ............