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Inside the Beltway
Oct. 26, 2007
Yea, though I walk through the valley
It has been an eventful several months. My mom lived with us for the first part of the year and while here had a TIA (mini-stroke). My oldest daughter graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University (1400 miles from home) with a 4.0 GPA, then left for her first teaching job...in Nairobi, Kenya at a mission school. The day she left, my 92 year old father in law died. We found out he may have received the Lord the night before he passed away.
My purse, laden with my month's money and tons of identification stuff, house keys and the keys to a car we were borrowing because our car wasn't working, was stolen out of our house by a woman we had been trying to help. We are in contact with her again and she is paying back her debt $20 a month (but she had thrown the purse away.) She is psychotic, bipolar, suicidal and in a lesbian relationship. Unrelated to that incident, my husband's identity has been stolen and we are still trying to work that out.
My third son had worked all summer on his car and when he volunteered to be a counselor at a Christian camp, he let his sister borrow it. While she had it out, a young driver backed into it, undoing all his body work. He fixed it up again since he works at a garage.
While he was working at his garage, just before he headed back to college, I called him to see when he would be home for supper. I heard BANG BANG CRASH CRASH then silence. Finally I heard him say, "Mom, there has been a drive-by shooting here". It was a targeted shooting. One car was shot at least 11 times. His car, the one being worked on, was in front of it, The car he had taken to work was behind it. Neither of our vehicles had a scratch and no one was injured.
A few weeks later my other daughter was at her job, a pharmacy two blocks away from home. An armed assailant entered the store, held a gun to the head of her supervisor and had him empty the safe.
My oldest son had been unemployed and in a depression. He determined to serve the Lord and was active in preaching at our church, and playing in a worship band and leading AWANA in another. The Lord was faithful and finally found him a job. After only a month on the job, he got in an accident on the way to work and practically totaled the car.
One of my dearest friends has two kids, her 18 year old son hasn't finished high school and uses marijuana, her 16 year old girl is pregnant and the 20 year father is currently serving his third jail term. Though my friend's husband has a good job, they have great financial difficulties. And now she has inoperable cancer. I want to help and feel so helpless,
When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for Thou art with me. |
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Oct. 27, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Blessings,
4sweetums