Saturday, March 10, 2007

Taking care of Mommy

I worried, but I shouldn't have. My mom has gotten in over her head lately by buying her dream property. Reason being, she has a lot of work to do. She is trying to get her current house ready for sale, and get her new property inhabitable for herself and her horses. On the new house, she needs to put in a door, get her floors redone, repair the stucco outside, paint, and a number of other small projects. On the new property, there are fences to fix and add in, a barn to put up, numerous projects to complete in the house if she sells the trailer or keeps it. That is still up in the air. There's junk to haul off, porch to replace, etc., etc., etc. It has been extremely overwhelming for her, and she is still working full time! My brother is trying to help, but can only come once a week because of school. My mom has been trying to do much of this by herself. She doesn't ask for help, even though she should. To make things even more fun, she has one horse at my Grandparents, and another horse across town at a friends house. Because of family circumstances, mom couldn't keep both horses at GP's house. So, this means a lot of traveling around. For a while, her friend that was keeping the one horse, was helping her out. But suddenly, this "friend" announced that mom needed to not only pay for an electric fence, but now needs to feed Mudd herself morning and night. There is no way my mom can pull that off and still work on getting her houses together. She has been sick for the past week or so, working herself ragged. I have been worried. She is no Spring Chicken you know, and she has been working hard. So, last weekend, my mom decided that she has no other choice but to, in one day, repair her fences, put up a temporary shelter, haul hay (BY HERSELF), and move her horses onto the property. This was killing me, because I couldn't come help, and Brook was out of town. I prayed, but I prayed that my mom's health would not suffer all this. I didn't pray for help. I thought I needed to do something on my own, so I emailed my aunt, who has been feuding with mom over the other horse not at mt GP's house. I asked her if she could help mom or find someone who can. I stressed that I was worried that mom would end up really hurting herself, and that she can't pay anyone. Well, I shouldn't have worried. When I called my mom for her Birthday, she blew me away with this story. She told me that my aunt came and helped her, and my aunt had not seen my email yet, when my gramma said that mom had a bad headache. Not only that, but she got my cousin Troy to help with hay bales. That alone I was so grateful for. But mom wasn't done yet. Then she told me that my gramma, as a B-day present, bought her a Handyman to help her get her old house ready for sale. NOT DONE YET! Then she told me that her boss at work pulled her aside and told her that he has noticed that mom looks overwhelmed and rundown lately, and asked of he could go out and see the new place. So, she took him and another guy from work out to the place. She told them what her plans were, and they left. One day, when mom was at work, they took the day off and went to the place and not only fixed her fences, they also put in a new gate, and hauled away all the junk on the property! Plus, they are going back to do some more work. They aren't asking for any money, they just want to help. After hearing all this, I just started to cry! God had it covered, and all I needed to do is trust him. He never ceases to amaze me.

4 comments:

Karen said...

That is the coolest God story I've heard this week!! I pray that your mom can see HIS love for her in the kindness of all these people. I'm so happy for her!

Chris said...

I am too! I told her that isn't amazing what God can do? She didn't acknowledge the God comment, but she did say that she couldn't believe all that these people did for her. I keep putting God in there when i can. I hope it will sink in one of these days.

bobbione8y said...

oh, it will sink in....God is working in His time in her heart.

that is a wonderful cool story chris, it is the kind of thing i just wish everybody could SEE - that the Lord helps us out all the time. it's especially nice when He goes above and beyond and answers YOUR prayer for help that you didn't even actually pray :))

thanks so much for sharing. my heart needed that...

K~ said...

That was really neat. Thanks for sharing. K~