My friend, Sharon, relayed this amazing story to me recently. Her evening began at 8:45 PM.
Sharon and her husband put their mattress and box springs on Craig’s List FREE. They received 25 calls in one hour! Sharon had written that the reason they were “selling” the mattress is she is having back surgery and needed to have a firmer mattress, so they wanted to share this one with someone in need.
They heard so many heart wrenching stories – children sleeping on the floor and people with no money, of course, so Sharon began to worry about who they would give the mattress to.
They decided to e-mail everyone back and tell them the mattress had to go first come first serve. There were many explanations of trying to get a truck, van etc.
The final outcome was that the mattress went to a boy who has a brain tumor and is being treated at St. Joseph. The tumor keeps growing and he has nearly lost all of his sight in both eyes. The family is a dear Christian couple who had borrowed a truck from a neighbor to get to Sharon’s home from the far southeast valley. Sharon told me that she spent time talking with this couple about Jesus and how prayers are answered so beautifullly and peace beyond comprehension if our prayers don’t seem to be answered the way we had planned. Of course they all promised to pray for the little boy, and it was the sweetest experience. Sharon found a set of sheets to throw in and a huge bag of clothes that she had just put together a few hours before to be taken to Good Will.
Don’t you just love these things God does!!!!!
Watching for God,
janet
Too cool! Bookmarking your blog and am going to start working through the archives as soon as I get time. Glad there’s someone out there writing about this with your attitude and honesty.