Monday, November 17, 2008
Grants and blessings
I spent a lot of time this summer looking for a grant to replace my 40 year old air conditioner. I never did find a grant for that but I did find one for the 23 year old roof on my house that needs to be replaced. Crown recommends keeping a fund for stuff that you know you will replace, but of course I did not know this when we bought the house 20 years ago. Why doesn't someone give you a manual when you buy a house? The housing authority has some grant money available for certain areas in Fresno County for their revitalization program. Finally living in the tower district has it's perks! They guarantee they will start the work on or before December 8th, so hopefully it won't rain too much before that. I have had multiple repairs on the roof in the last 12 years. When it began leaking again last year everyone that looked at it flat out refused to fix it. I finally begged someone to do another repair but he told me it would only last a year and the year is up. I can't tell you what a blessing this is for us. Not to mention they will do some other repairs that we desperately needed. We even got to pick the color of the roof! That was too funny. Personally I could care less what color it is as long as I don't spend every day that it rains anxiously looking at the ceiling. Today we found out we could get the plumbing leak we have under the house covered as well so now I don't need to worry about how we were going to pay for that too. I may have spent the last two weeks barely working, but God is still taking care of our needs. So many people have blessed us this year with what we needed. When we refinanced our house this year it basically was only enough to pay for the legal fees to get the title released to me. (Long divorce story) I was really upset, disappointed, and anxious about what we were going to do about the rest of it. God has shown us the path to doing absolutely everything that we wanted to do when we refinanced except replacing the air conditioner and the windows but neither of them were really necessities anyway, just wishes. Somehow we replaced Ken's car that just died, repainted the house, repaired our fence, got a new roof, repaired the structure damage to the garage, fixed our plumbing, trimmed and removed trees, and new grass to the backyard. All of this cost us about 1/4th of what it should have. Not to mention we were able to bless at least two other people that we know of with work when they desperately needed it. How awesome is that? In the book debt free living by Larry Burkett there are many stories by others who had desperate situations with money. They began living their lives according to Gods principles and received many blessings as a result. I read that book and it truly inspired me. I never expected it to happen to me, but it did. I am overwhelmed with how much God loves me and cares for me, particularly when I didn't feel my needs were worthy enough for His notice. I began this blog because I was feeling discouraged with how I was doing on my own money map, but as I'm writing this I am realizing how truly blessed I have been, and I'm now feeling truly inspired for the coming year.
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Yahoooooo! Keep on saving!
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