Dear Vinny,

I'm praying with you about this business venture. I am also Praising God
that this has happened, and that you are given this opportunity to
possibley start your own piano tuning business. I will be praying for you,
and please keep us informed as to how it goes.

Even if this means more schooling for you, I pray The Lord will provide
this opportunity for you and the money for the education as well. I pray
that God will provide you with all the knowledge and wisdom you need to do
this task.

Many lovings and squeezings for you. They always help. <smile>

God Bless you.

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson



At 02:52 AM 5/28/04, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Please pray for me about this.  A piano tuning business has dropped in my
>lap, so-to-speak.
>There has been one piano tuner in this town for almost eighteen years, a top
>tuner who used to work at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
>He was so good that he had the town totally sewed up as far as customers
>were concerned.  I did not dare to compete with him.
>
>Meanwhile, the Lord had opened up finances for me to get training at a
>school in Washington which specializes in training blind people towards
>becoming a regoistered technician.  I went there for four summers and
>learned tuning and regulation, but couldn't take any more time to complete
>the course, because I was heavily involved in teaching young people in a
>music conservatory which some of us had established, and because we needed
>to take care of my wife's parents also.
>The  tuner in this town, which is an hour away from me, has had to stop
>tuning due to problems with his neck and back.  So last week he told me that
>he was moving and that he was going to reccommend me to his customers.
>This is very very scary, since there are many things that I haven't learned
>to do.
>This looks like it could be the Lord, however, since I have been sitting
>around for the last three years, practically doing nothing, after our music
>school closed.
>I have never set up a business before, and need a lot of wisdom from the
>Lord.
>So, I say all that to say this: please pray for me that I would know how
>much to do, and which jobs I should refuse for lack of knowledge.  I have
>done a lot of tuning in the area, mostly volunteering, but if other things
>go wrong, then I am stuck.     Any other tuners in the area are many miles
>away.
>Thanks for any prayers you might feel lead to pray.  I just need to know
>truly that the Lord is with me in this.
>If the Lord gives any of you anything particular for me in this reguard,
>please let me know.
>Thanks and God bless.
>             Love,
>Vinny