Kathy,
I'm praying for you, and you just need some of those lovings and squeezings
right now.
I understand your frustrations completely and I'm praying for you and your
family.
Please keep us posted.
Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson who will always read Kathy's emails.
At 09:59 AM 10/14/04, you wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>You know how life takes many twists and turns? Well, I hope that you
>don't mind this post, but our lives have just taken another twist and I
>just need to talk my way through it. If you're sick of hearing about the
>ungoing saga of my family and the house and Christopher, believe me, my
>feelings won't be hurt if you just go ahead and push the delete key now.
>I know that you all have your own lives to live and listening to me
>grapple with the decisions in mine probably gets pretty boaring after a
>while.
>Anyway, this latest situation has to do with the sale of the mobile home.
>I know, I know, you thought that that was a done deal, but it wasn't.
>Actually, the consignment people were still willing to take it, but Chris
>had done so much damage to the place that they were more interested in
>having us sell it "as is," and they would still get their commission,
>rather than put the money into fixing it up and charge us for time,
>materials and commission on top of it. They figured that we really
>wouldn't come out ahead, in the long run and there would also be a
>further delay in getting any money just because selling something is just
>an unknown anyway.
>Well, we thought and prayed about it and we decided to contact the other
>two people who had made offers on the house. Do you remember the first
>couple that showed up, out of the blue, last August to look at our house?
>Well, they had made the lower offer, but we liked them better and we
>decided to sell to them. They are really pretty poor and they are living
>in a 10 by 50, so our 14-80 was like a mansion to them. Anyway, they just
>called this morning to ask if they could go a little lower because they
>will need to use some of the money that they are borrowing to move the
>thing. Greg and I prayed about it and decided to still let them have it
>because, hopefully, they can have it out of here within a week and then
>the contractor can come back in and bury our water line and finish the
>landscaping around our new house.
>I'm just feeling a lot of things through all this. First of all, I have
>to deal with feelings of anger toward Chris because the damage that he
>inflicted on our mobile home not only has cost us a great deal of money
>now, but it looks, to others, as if we were horrible home owners and that
>just isn't true! If Chris had controlled himself, this place would have
>stayed in pretty good shape and would have been pretty attractive on the
>market. I just have to work through this.
>Secondly, I pray that we aren't being taken advantage of. I don't thihk
>that we are, but you just never know. I'm praying that God will still
>close this door if it isn't right and I'm praying that God will protect
>us from injustice, but it's frustrating to me that today, in this
>society, I would even have to think that.
>Finally, of course, I'm just disappointed that we aren't going to realize
>our asking price, which wasn't high to begin with. I just pray that this
>place really is a blessing to the buyers because they really do need it.
>I know that with all the work that Greg is having to do at the post
>office for now, we will be okay financially anyway. I guess that I just
>don't deal really well with having huge changes in plans and I'm just
>writing this all out as a part of reviewing and accepting the decisions
>that we have made.
>Okay guys, please don't send me a bill for this therapy moment. I don't
>think that I could afford the bill. Thanks, if you made it to this point,
>for listening. I'll be okay. I just wish that God's voice were louder
>sometimes so that I didn't doubt.
>God bless,
>Kathy
>
>________________________________________________________________
>Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand.
>Now includes pop-up blocker!
>Only $14.95/ month - visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today!
|
