Hi, Kathy,

I'm glad you're sharing with us.  I've an idea that might be one of the
reasons that we exist on this list.  Something like fellowship, sharing the
Lord, and sharing our joys as well as our concerns and prayers.  Okay.  So I
promise not to continue in lecture mode.  Smile.  Seriously, we're happy to
listen.

Can understand why you'd be working through anger.  If you've done all you
can do to make sure you've acted responsibly in selling to these people who
appear to need it, and they aren't what they claim to be, you've done your
part.  Since your home was given to God as you lived in it, and it's his
property, then if they're not what they claim, they're tampering with God's
property.  If they are as you think, then it will be a blessing to them.
And we'll pray with you about that.  Not meaning to over simplify, it's just
that sometimes we forget that all our stuff really belongs to God.  I'm
saying this to myself too, having to remember this as I consider things at
the job, and my future there.

Vicki


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: Musings on the latest.


> 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
>
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