Foreclosure PAPERS SERVED... So many in our town are going through this same situation. Businesses are closing doors, many that have been here along time. Where I sit I can see the PARR Lumber building sitting empty. Several of the little shops down town vacant. These are tough times for allot of people. The news paper is full of notices of sales of foreclosed properties. I know we are not alone. I just never thought it would be me. How fast life can turn around.
My husband was working on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA last fall, when the stock market went crazy. He was one of many who lost his job. We never thought it would continue to get worse. Six months without work, and two property payments, plus helping other families, we could not make the payment on the Condo where we lived. We have spent our life helping others in Pastoral Ministry, and now we were in need of help.
The day came when the knock on the door came, and I was served the papers. The young lady serving the papers told me that she too is going through the same thing. Just this week I have heard of other families who are moving in with friends, but I heard of another who had no place to go. This breaks my heart. We are not in a position to be able to help them.
I have been sick and going through tests, the doctor's thought i was having mini strokes, I thought is was low blood sugar. My husband was holding a Bible Study at the jail, and I was in bed sick, when I was served the papers. To make a long story short, I realized that my emotions were shot, I just kept hoping and hoping, praying and praying. We had both properties up for sale for the last two year, but nothing. My reaction was, "Lord we have served you faithfully for the past 43 years, and could you not have sent someone to buy the properties, one or both." I realized... yes, the rain falls on everyone, and I can't change anything in my own strength. The road to success is not straight, but if I blame God I have lost my focus. The Bible tells us that in the days before the second coming of Jesus, that times will be in great turmoil. Matthew 24 gives us signs of the times. Did I think I could not go through tough times and feel the emotions of failure and confusion, even bitterness. Am I super spiritual that nothing can touch me? Interesting, How the great characters of the Bible went through some of these same feeling after a great high.
I have a daughter-in-law and daughter that are pregnant, and as the time draws close the pains are slight at first but they will get more intense. They will get closer and closer together, and the pain more and more intense, so will it be in the time of the end, just before the coming of our Lord. Just like a woman in travail. Are we Americans so comfortable that we don't think it can happen to us. Is this all a wake up call. Ponder it all, all the events of the last six months, are looking more and more like the Bible prophecies. False teachings... invading the minds of those who do not read the Bible for themselves and study it. What is called new by Oprah is not new, but old pantheism. I have for years been pondering could America be the Babylon of the last days spoken of in Rev 18. If so after a rapture call..."Come out of her my people", a great catching away will take place, and then in one hour.... read it for yourself, see if it does not sound like America. Who else fits the description right now in history? Like a woman in travail.
This past week, I personally was helped so much during spiritual emphasis week at our church. Sam Farina spoke, but God used him to speak to me. He has a web site http://www.samfarina.com/ , and our church has a web site that you can get downloads of the messages. http://www.livinghopecc.com/ , also you can go to http://www.amazinggrace4u2.com/ and see more of our ministry.
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