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Subject: "Please do not make stipulations on my provision for you child"
Time: 22:31:00 o'clock BST
Author: abicequeen
Mood: Quiet
Dear Journal Friends,
This is my youngest grandchild....for now that is as he is going to have a baby sister in July...much to his and brother chagrin...they want their mommie to find a family that wants a girl and they will take a "brudder" Oh Lord you bless my heart so much with these little ones in our life
I will try to remember what I said before my entry going into cyberspace although hubby would probably say, "Lori you are NEVER at a loss for words"
Todd finished with all of his treatments and I praise the Lord that this sickness was to "the glory of God" as both his father and I continued to acknowledge that the Mighty Physician has touched not only our boys sick body but our decaying ones and brought us back to life to begin to learn how to live that life He intended.
I had always told hubby I did not want to have the Sheriff end up at our door one day to evict us so I started to look around for a place for us to live...Of course when there is virtually no money it is hard.
In all our married life we had lived in all types of accomodations so I guess I was selfish in saying that an "apartment" would NOT be a choice!! As my title of this says....no stipulations.
One day I get a call from a local realtor saying, "Lori I understand that you and your family have to move?" Yes, but it is not easy to find something due to our circumstances which I am sure you are aware of.
This man said to me, well Lori how does FREE sound....my heart lept and of course I could not believe the words. The good Lord had provided a place to live where we had to pay NO rent...guess what it was??? An apartment so our duties were to keep halls clean and collect rent in lieu of our rent. My hubby and I had a few chuckles on that one...
We have moved many times over our life to that point but going into a small apartment forced us to unpack all boxes as there was little storage and for the first time in years I set up house "completely. (even this place we are in now for the past 10 years has boxes in the basement)
We lived there quite confortably, our business was closed down, we had to deal with the bankruptcy issues and most of all swallow our pride although you know what somehow that was not hard as our dear Lord bestowed SO much grace upon us.
The Lord showed himself in so many miracles and one before we left the house, we owned a very unique 57 T bird that had been made in England. Prior to leaving our house, I saw it being towed away and that was fine as it was part of assets we had.....Only a short time later my husband got a call from a gentlemen inquiring if he had previously owned this T bird and would he like to buy it back as it really was not suitable for his boy??? Chuck said he would talk with TJ and see what he said, but inquired "how much do you want for it?" I only want back what I paid which was $200.00. NOW you must understand the value of this car at the time was 10X so once more I marvelled at this miracle.
One day I had left the apartment to visit a sick friend and while at the hospital, I told him that I sensed something was going to happen....not that I was fearful but I just knew. Of course it was great to have a place to live but we were still not able to bring in sufficient $$$ to live very well.
Then one evening we get a call from a person who wants to inquire if we would be interested in managing a motel in Stettler which we had driven by everyday for a LONG time.
Long story short (if you can believe that) we met the owners up in Edmonton and in 15 minutes they gave us the job which gave us a 3 bedroom attached property to the 50 unit motel plus wages.
PTL PTL PTL....for He is so good.
It was different in this job but again neat things happened there as well. Also Mom Kellough (I called her) had been faithfully giving us a cheque to help with groceries and one day I just said, "Mom we can never thank you enough but I know the Lord will bless you so much and now it is time to find another family you can help as we are starting to get on our feet." This couple from our church did things like this very quietly with NO one knowing.
Journal friends my neck is getting sore so I am going to close off for now.....but will tell you about how we were ministered to and we were able to minister to others while managing this new job God had placed us in.
Ljj
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the Lord does take care of his children!! its always neat to read testimonies like this :)
betty -
Praising god for His goodness and provision for you all!!! - Barbara
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Lori look forward to you remembering what it was you said ...before it was lost ...love Jan xx
21/04/08 04:04
God is so good, He is always right on time isn't he!
God Bless
Randy