This is so moving I had to share. As you have probably read, we have been helping a mother that just a few weeks ago was evicted and forced to live in a motel with no food, little clothing, her children and grand babies. Since then and by the help of the generous hearts in our community (Gay, Wendy, Dianne and Steph B) she now has a roof over their heads, food on the shelves and a job at Walmart. Praise God!
She reports in to me daily just to let me know how things are going and that they are ok. These families become an extended family of our own. She went on to tell me how she had a rough night working and that she had developed blisters beyond on the top of her foot and how unbearable they were. She said she was in so much pain she was in tears and felt as if she was going to have to give up. With a few encouraging words she said, "I know God was with me and getting me through the night." she went on the explain that as she was stocking she had to walk pass the book section. On the end isle was a wall of the Holy Bible. She said every time she passed them, it would remind her that God was carrying her through and that she could make it and could not give up since we all worked so hard to get her there. She said all night she was thinking of the bibles and how her heart was yearning to find her bible she had packed away. She had prayed that she had not lost it with everything else and that God would help her get back into the bible.
As she is telling me this, I was in amazement. See I had just got off the phone with Gay Landreth. She had just shared with me that her and her husband went to Eagle Wings Bookstore and bought all types of bibles to give out to people that needed or had the want for one. Gay wanted this mother to have one. That was so a "GodThing." I told the mother about that and she just cried. "Are you serious, I just prayed tonight that I would get a bible then you say you got one for me." Shocked she asked me to please thank Gay and Jeff for getting her that bible and because of us she is coming back around to God. A God that she once knew but had lost along the way.
The best part of what we are doing through BeGenerous Inc. is not just the food we feed people, the clothes we clothe people in or the bottoms we cover with diapers. It's us feeding them with hope in their lives, our community and in themselves, its clothing them with prayer and love as a cloke shielding them from despair and doubt, it's covering them with support and a sense of worth, a feeling of importance that one feels when someone takes time to show they care. The greatest accomplishment in this all is to show people they call upon his name and he will provide.To help them find who is ultimately responsible for their second chance, GOD.
God is stirring up something and BeGenerous with your help is going to spread it like butter!
Who's in????
this GMomma is busy busy gotta go!
Much love
Steph
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