Thanksgiving is past, but I wanted take a little time in my blog to share a few of the blessings for which I am very thankful.
CHILDREN WITH TENDER HEARTS
Lots of families with children came through after the devastating floods of 2010. Recently, one of those children sent $40 for our meeting house to be cleaned up after seeing the mess made by the flood. He sold his video game to meet the need. Three more envelopes with cash money in it came from other kids. One little girl sent part of her inheritance. They are more tenderhearted than many adults and burdened for a lost and dying world.
HANDS TO HELP
Our house is making progress. . . slowly! A couple from Kentucky came and worked with Mike on the electricity for a full week in early November. That was a real blessing! Mike is 65 now and still going strong with the help of faithful prayer warriors.
For now, we are living in the apartment for at least another year or two until the house is completed. My daddy lives in our old house where he receives round the clock care. Talitha helps me so much with that and SO MUCH MORE!
WHO’S TALITHA??
Talitha is my angel!
We had a LOT of visitors over this past summer – and they are STILL coming, but we discontinued the big meals when fall arrived. Mike invited people to make the trip and visit the Church at Cane Creek on Sundays. By the third week of visitors, I was SWAMPED trying to organize food and get everyone fed. Everyone was chipping in, but I was overwhelmed. One of those Sundays, I was rushing back up to the office on the 4-wheeler to get some supplies when my angel appeared!
About 5 years before this, we were at a seminar in Arkansas. A young girl with long blond hair came over to our table. We started to talk. I just KNEW that God wanted her to work with me. I asked her how old she was because she didn’t look more than 14 years old or so. She was 22! I took her name and number home with me and LOST IT!! Ugh!
As I rattled along on the 4 wheeler, I looked towards my herb garden. This same young girl with long blond hair was walking among the herbs. I stopped the machine and said “I know you!” I remembered her from that seminar. It was Talitha! Talitha had found me. She said she was now 27 and could come to work.
Talitha is a delight. She is so young looking that she doesn’t appear to be an adult. You may have seen her in some of our YouTube videos.
She came in and cooked for us throughout the summer. She took over the shopping, cooking and serving of the multitudes that showed up. She really held things together, especially after the flood hit! There was LOTS of cleanup in addition to the shopping and cooking.
Every day she helps me care for Daddy Bill. She teaches the young children school. She is a PRECIOUS human being! EVERYBODY needs a Talitha! She will make some man an EXCELLENT help meet. Of course, he will have to be pretty special too!
Meanwhile, God continues to bless and answer the prayers of many in ways too numerous to tell in this small space. Thank you for praying about the many projects at critical stages. I’ll write more on those later.