I must confess, these last few months have really drawn my
attention elsewhere and I have been lacking in my efforts to keep our blog
current. I need to be better about
informing our friends about what is happening in our lives!
We settled right in here at Paint Rock and just adore this
sleepy little town. Coming from the experiment
station, which was in the middle of nowhere, there has been a little
adjusting. We currently live right next
door to the Post Office and our front yard is HWY 83. When we were in Sonora we could tell you who
was coming down the road just by the sound of the truck or car. Here the traffic has taken a bit to get used
to. Still hearing people pull in to pick
up their mail makes me think we have company!
It is even been an adjustment for our dog who barks whenever he hears a
door slam shut next door. We do find it
opportune that we live two doors down from the little convenience/bait/café/Mary
Kay or Avon distributer/proud supporter of Paint Rock Indians T-shirt selling
store. If you need it, they have
it! I am pretty sure there is a country
song or two written about such a place.
It is a great town and we have been blessed just by being here!
We have been on the receiving end of God pouring out His
blessings over us ever since we completely surrendered our lives to His will
and He continues on a daily basis to reveal more of Him to us! Sometimes I have to just stop and think of
ways to describe what and how I am feeling, and I am lacking the right
words. When we knew in our hearts that
we were going into missions, I knew that we would be giving up most all of
“things” in order to be obedient to His calling. To be honest, it was a bit of an internal
battle for me when I thought of having to sell my stuff! I panicked at the thought of what I was going
to do with my horse, dog and cat! I let
my mind worry about all the details and that in its own way could have kept me
from an experience with God. BUT thankfully
He is faithful and He to cares about the details of my life and can handle them
in a much better fashion than I can on my own.
We moved all of our furniture into Colin’s parents shed,
which is full of other children’s things and other family member’s belongings,
as well as my in-law’s seasonal decor.
So in a shed that is big enough for two cars to park, with all of our
“stuff”, the only thing that could park in that shed was the riding lawn
mower! The thought of having a garage
sale was just overwhelming to me, and I have no idea what to charge people for
dressers and tables and books and DVD ’s. Bottom line is I just didn’t want to go
through boxes and price things that wouldn’t sell. But I was feeling horrible about our “stuff”
just taking up room, collecting dust and dirt dobbers, and over time getting
ruined. However the Lord had plans for
our things that we did not know.
Colin was about to leave his parent’s house one night a few
weeks ago and head to Paint Rock, and when he went outside he saw that one of
the neighbor’s homes was on fire! In
good Mereta fashion, Colin, Devin, and William put on extra clothes and went to
get the fire truck. Needless to say the
family lost their home. The family was
not home at the time of the fire so thankfully everyone was safe. But in losing their home, they lost all of
their belongings. Before Colin and I had
a chance to even talk face to face about it, I knew what we needed to do, and
sure enough Colin was on the same page.
A few days later Colin went by to see the family and told them about our
shed full of stuff and that they were welcome to it, and all off our things
were now theirs if they wanted to pick them up.
So this past Friday we loaded up our tables, beds, dressers,
refrigerator, lamps, curtains, and dishes and gave them to a family that lost
everything! Thank you Lord that we were
able to help them! I think it is so
awesome to see that through a horrible event, God was still able to do
something neat. I know that we probably
could have found someone that could have used our things, but God wanted to use
a family much closer than we could have found! I am also reminded that He knew my
heart. He knew that I felt bad for our
things taking up so much room in my in-laws shed. Just a small detail, but still great to see
how God worked it all out and to Him be all the glory!
This is just one of the things the Lord has done in regards
to the details I have worried over, so in order to keep these postings not
incredibly long I’ll just post more about how awesome He is!
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