Not Sure Where This Is Headed
I’m not sure where God is leading my wife and I this time. My 18 year old son has a large group of friends, and most of them are what you would call ”fringe” kids. They are good kids, very respectful, but somewhere in their background there is a broken home, or parents who lack even the resources to send them to junior college, or maybe they have parents who don’t care - we don’t know the whole story, only one side of it. One teen doesn’t have a place to live, that’s the one we took in temporarily. Another’s mother is moving out of town, not sure where she’s headed, possibly leaving the son behind. For the moment, we’re offering to pay this one’s tuition at the local junior college. We’re asking God what he wants us to do in this situation. Funny, I was expecting to have a quieter house as my kids became of college age, but now it seems we have a house full of teenagers every night. Sometimes when I leave for work in the morning there are two or three kids sleeping on the floor in our living room. I guess the good news is that they’re in our house, instead of out drinking or smoking somewhere, or doing worse. Pray for guidance and strength for us.
Yesterday’s Donor, Today’s Client
We were able to help a client today, who was a donor not all that long ago. It’s interesting how our circumstances change. Last summer the client donated a couch, furniture, and other household items that we were able to pass on to a Shepherd’s Gate women’s shelter “graduate” who needed the items for her apartment. Now the client is struggling to make the rent, and is disabled and hungry. We were able to point out some local legal resources, deliver a couple of bags of food, and (thank you God for the Internet) able to order a cell phone charger for next day delivery. Perhaps this latter items seems small, but all of the client’s contacts, and sources of potential help, were in the phone memory. At the moment, she’s struggling to stave off eviction, and we’re all praying that she’ll be able to come up with the additional funds needed to stay in her place. I pray Lord that you will find a way for our client to stay in her apartment. - Charlie
