too good to be true... is true

I'm feeling quite frustrated today.
Hopeless. Defeated. Pretty 'Woe Is Me'.

I've had several situations lately come up in places I've been looking for things... personal and family situations. Situations where I'm looking for answers, solutions, options, and suddenly I find possible answers, solutions and options that seem too good to be true. I try not to get my hopes up, I try very hard not to count my chickens before they hatch, etc, etc. I downplay things, I look for ways that it might not happen and remember that it's not done until it's done.

But still. The possible situations have been absolutely PERFECT. Way more perfect that I could have hoped for or imagined. Like every time it's God spelling out these perfect situations with little things here and there that just make things exactly a perfect fit- more than I could have known to even ask for. Which, again, makes me cautious.
Until the last possible moment, when I think things have finally come together enough to matter... when things appear to be actually happening.

And then I finally share it with people. I share it with friends, I share it with certain people asking for prayer, and still I share it with the reserve -and the disclaimer to those I'm sharing with- that it's not a done deal yet.
And in one case I share it finally (an hour before-hand in this case) with my kids.

And then it doesn't happen.

It's yanked out from my hands. The door is closed. Too bad, so sorry.

Why does this keep happening?
Why do these things appear to be an absolute answer to prayer, complete with bonuses I wasn't even asking for... just to be dangled in front of me and then taken away at the last minute??