Post by kjs on Dec 18, 2018 13:26:58 GMT -6
When I asked Gary to set up a testimony section; I was really hoping people would open up and share stories that they are witnessing every day. Hearing these touching and moving stories; adds further proof that one does not need a “big celebrity” to have God working miracles in their life.
This story was told to our congregation this past Sunday, by one of our members, who recently lost her mother. The story does not need much set up; except to explain the why’s and where’s of the situation. She was down in Dallas Area with her husband, her sister and the sister’s family – which none of them still live in the area. The Goal was to get her mother’s estate settled; including selling the house and disposing of all the items in the house, such as bedding, kitchen appliances and dishes, furniture. They (the kids had discussed it before hand and thought they could use a long weekend to get everything cleaned up and the house on the market).
The primary issue was one collects a lot of stuff over a thirty year period. So even though they had originally planned to donate most everything to a charity like Goodwill or the like. It turns out there was so much stuff that it would have taken more than twenty or so trips to the charity.
During the time they were down there they ended up talking to the next door neighbor of their mother. During that conversation, they mentioned how they wish they could make a difference in someone’s life specifically – rather than just donate to a charity who may or may not even use all of it.
The neighbor revealed to them; that she had a friend; whose daughter was in the process of leaving an abusive relationship. This daughter and her three kids; had been living in a woman’s shelter for a couple weeks now. The woman’s group had managed to locate an apartment for the women and her kids to stay at – but it was completely unfurnished.
Long story, shorten they contact the neighbor’s friend and asked if the daughter would like some of this stuff. They said she would and these parents drove over five hours to arrive the next day… They got a rental truck and the daughter (and her parents) and the family who just lost their mother – moved several truck loads over to the daughter’s new apartment.
Beds, couches, dishes, bedding, towels, TVs and even vacuums, mops, brooms – in other words everything a family would need to move into a new apartment. After the last load was delivered; the mother of the daughter – said she could not thank them enough; but she was most thankful to God – who obvious worked everything out in such a way to help the grieving family members to get rid of most of their mother’s things to a young family that desperately needed it – to escape an abusive relationship.
I feel most of our church did not have a dry eye after hearing that tale.
