Excerpt of a blog by my husband.
The above observation is known as the Lightfoot Luck, and it hit us pretty hard this week.
For the past five years we have been knocked down, again and again, and every time we think we have gotten momentum to start moving forward, something, usually the thing we expected to help move us forward, knocks us further down, and we have to pick ourselves back up and try moving forward again.
The knocks had gotten so bad through my attempts at employment, that I had given up the attempt to secure employment, since I wasn’t securing anything, but just creating another way for us to get knocked further down again.
We had even reached a place where attending church was a definite hazard. In the last two churches we attended, we had someone run an intimidation campaign against me to stop me from coming to church, I was assaulted during a worship service and no one would help me, someone slammed a door in Jasini’s face, and I have been issued tresspass warnings against setting foot on either of the properties. In both cases these started with us going to the church for help in reconciling an issue where someone had violated our rights and denied us our personal agency, and both churches turned our requests for help and spiritual guidance into a tribunal that kicked us out without allowing us to speak in our own defense.
His post contains two videos, one with him singing “The Goodness of God”, and the other with him singing “Job Suite”. Both as he is walking through the wreckage.
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Gah. I must say that puts our continual bad luck at a much lower level. Praying that things start moving in a more positive direction.
Sometimes, when things aren't working out, it's because God has something better planned for you. You are on the path to figuring out what it is. {virtual hugs}