Betty,
Hello, of course i don't mind you making my idea a
group effort and improving on it. I'm always open to
the idea of two heads are better than one!

I'm so sorry you had to go threw the flood like
that. It sounds terrible, but how wonderful that you
can see God's work and how He places His hands upon us
when we are faced with adversities.

I wish you the best of luck with the clean up
process, and God bless the gentlemen for helping you
as they are.

How are the rest of the homes coming along? Will
you be back in your home soon? Good luck with trying
to sell. I will pray that your home sells and that
your brother does not give you any trouble along the
way.

I would love to type more, but about 2 hours ago, I
just got home from the emergency room. Long story
short...I was preheating the oven to make muffins this
morning, opened the oven to find I forgot to take out
some dishes that I hid in there. A large bowl had
melted and after removing everything I tried to scrap
the bottom of the oven. Well it stuck to the spatula,
I hit the spatula on the garbage can. Instead of it
going inside the can, it came up and landed on my
hand, along with melted plastic that strung around my
fingers. After trying to shake it off, I finally used
my other hand and it then stuck to that hand. I have
2nd degree burns to both hands and most of my fingers.
Luckily with in a few minutes my ex boyfriend showed
up and took me to the hospital. I praise God for
sending Larry over here when I needed him. I had foot
surgery and still am unable to drive.

Blessings to all,
Amy~
--- Betty <bchile@...> wrote:

>
> I thought Amy's recommendation of a monthly check in
> was good but I
> modified it a bit...hope you don't mind Amy. I
> thought...instead of
> having everyone just check in..why not have it a
> praise report time once
> a month. We all have some really hard things we've
> either been thru,
> are going thru now or may have to walk thru in the
> future but God tells
> us to continually have praises to our Lord on our
> lips and in the
> honoring of our Lord we will keep our eyes upon the
> healer and providers
> of all things rather than become overwhelmed in the
> problems at hand.
>
> I will begin. It is January 15th and I am signing
> in and praising God
> for His mighty protection and unending blessings of
> friends and
> christian brothers and sisters and provision for our
> needs. One week
> ago last night my town flooded...what they call a
> 100 year flood....and
> almost 150-200 are without a home to go home to or
> with homes where
> anywhere from 2-4 foot of muddy water came into
> their living area. I
> live on a block with 8 houses and am within 3 houses
> of the creek which
> flooded. I have a full basement with about 26
> steps going down into it
> and my basement filled with water(even with 3 pumps
> going!) to within 2
> steps of coming up into the living area and the
> house was surrounded to
> the point of only one step and the landing of the
> front porch of the
> water coming into the front door. A basement window
> was broken out by
> debris just letting water pour in that way too.
> However....God stopped
> the water before it got to the rafters in my
> basement and thus my living
> area is dry and did not even appear to draw moisture
> into the flooring
> or carpet. The basement is concrete block and,
> while I lost all the
> momentos of my childhood and my grandparents,
> parents, etc.....I was
> saved. Even my furnace which was under water and
> which the repairman
> said he was sure there was no way it would start
> up...that I would have
> to put an all new one in....he replaced parts in it
> and my furnace fired
> up and as of last night has been working even better
> than it had been
> before the flood! My water heater is working. My
> electrical box was
> covered with water but God saw that my power never
> faltered at the house
> and my sump pump kept going the whole time. I
> evacuated myself from
> the house about 2am last Tues am after just an
> intense sense that I
> needed to get out of there. AT the time I only had
> 4 inches of water
> in my basement. By all accounts of talking to my
> neighbors last
> Saturday when we were at the house working...my
> house was surrounded by
> water within about 30 minutes of when I left with a
> few things and my
> dog to some friends house where I am still staying.
> Men from my
> church came down last Saturday and cleaned out 3/4th
> of the basement and
> are planning on coming back this Saturday to finish
> that and power wash
> it and sanitize it for me(they won't even let me do
> that part of it).
> After that I am going to have my pastor pray over
> the house before I
> move back in and will be looking at selling it this
> year which will mean
> a battle with my brother who owns half of it but
> does nothing to help
> with it's upkeep. But God has provided safety, a
> place to stay and many
> blessings for me in all of this....God is a good
> God!
>
> Betty
>
>




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