Spirited Sons - Update: Prayer Request

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Monday, March 31, 2008

Update: Prayer Request

Posted in Due to Technical Difficulties Beyond Our Control. . .

For those of you who knew in time to pray, I can't thank you enough! Your prayers, I'm certain, made a difference. Here's how it went down:

We called a guy who attends our church, and we had him take a look. (He's a plumber.) A few things were going on: sump pump gave up the ghost, drainage from the back of the house wasn't making it to the front because of a plugged line, and the sump pump drainage line that *should* run to the street drainage is, ummm, illegally draining back away from the street.

*sigh*

New sump pump and a cleared line under the house. . .

It was like the water was just TURNED OFF! We were using our steam cleaner and soaking up water and dumping and refilling buckets. . .for hours! It never slowed down. He gets the sump pump going, and the water at the back door stopped within a couple minutes! Yay!

Now, the tricky part of all this is: our illegally draining water needs to be fixed. I will say that nearly EVERY house in this part of our block is draining in the wrong direction, though. Not sure what to make of that.

So, our biggest blessing is that we felt "wrong" about the estimate we got from the foundation guy a few weeks ago. And, the largest part of his estimate never needed to be done, per our plumber friend. That's good news!

The bad news: to fix the drainage, it'll be a costly digging deal. The trencher is $18 per linear foot. I don't know what the materials will be in addition to that. *sigh*

Jehovah Jireh, we are looking to You for this.

Thanks, again, for your prayers, friends. I know you'll continue to pray for provision. We'd really appreciate that.

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Monday, March 31, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by lcourtneymom

I will be praying about the situation with you, Jen.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by CrossView

I'm so glad there was some good news! =)

Praying for you all on the rest of the not-so-good-news! =(

Though I do look forward to hearing how the Lord works it all out! =D

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Posted by MOMflippedisWOW

WoW! Hope things are going better today for you. I'll be keeping you in my prayers forever. I just wanted to stop by and tell you I've appreciated your friendship, but alas, I'll be leaving HSB as we will no longer be homeschooling. It's been fun.

Peace & laughter!
Vicki

Edited by MOMflippedisWOW on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 8:27 AM

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - =8~O

Posted by kympossible

What an ordeal!!! Praying and believing that God will provide what you need to clean up and repair this problem.

Blessings,
Kym

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Posted by kellieann

Praying here that God will meet your needs! He is so good!

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Posted by blessedwith2angels

Goodness! I will be keeping you in my prayers. Hope everything is resolved quickly.
Pam

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by lahbluebonnet

Is the trencher for the drain a French Pipe? My husband put a few of those in around here and that fixed a lot! I have a friend in another city who just had one installed and that fixed their mess. I'll be praying for the finances and for it all to be fixed soon and well!
Blessings,
Laurie

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by BChsMamaof3

Hi Jen, sorry I'm a little late catching up on your prayer request, but so happy to hear that the water has stopped coming in your basement! Thank goodness your friend was able to help and save some cost for you to. I'll keep you in my prayers that you will be able to fix this easily with minimal costs.
Thinking of you,
rosina

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