Unexpected Blessings

Its the little things.

Phone message from my prayer partner at Give Send Go:

In spite of everything that has happened, there have been little blessings, unexpected things that show us that though we may be hard-pressed, perplexed, and struck down, we have not been forsaken.

One thing was finding the above message in my phone from Give Send Go. I knew that they advertised themselves as a Christian organization. I had not realized that they assigned you a prayer partner to pray with you. I was touched to listen to the above message, and so was my husband.

Another thing was finding my husband’s accordion in the wreckage. Since it had been in the burnt part of the house, we assumed that it was gone. But just as the dressers gave their lives valiantly defending the clothes within, the accordion case defended the accordion. My husband found it yesterday, in a spot we had looked over several times. The case was both burnt and moldy, damp on the inside. The firefighters must have thrown it out the window, since my husband found it outside. It’s a good thing he found it when he did, because it might have gotten moldy soon otherwise.

So far our Give Send Go campaign has raised over $3000. Thank you everyone! I was expecting a few hundred at the most, considering I know that most everyone is hard-pressed themselves.

I think though, that keeping things updated like this is going to turn out to be a full-time, or at least a goodly chunked part-time job. A job, anyway. And I will of course need to help in cleaning up the mess of the fire, as well as trying to find if I’ve got copies of my stories anywhere (I thought I had, but they aren’t backed up to DropBox in any usable format), and continuing writing. This past week, I’ve been too numb to even try.

We still need to find out if the main section of the house can be made livable again, or if it needs to be torn down as well. But we should at least be able to salvage most of the items in there.

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