Giving

This past week my husband worked with the Meadowdale Mission Alliance, the mission team from our church.  He has worked with the mission team the past few years and they have usually gone out of state to help start new churches or repair churches who needed construction help.  This year they worked on a house in our home town that an elderly lady from our church owned. 

The MMA had one week to work on the house.  They went in and gutted the house completely out.  The team gave the lady all new windows, a new heating/air system, new flooring, a new room, new landscaping, new paint, new sheetrock, and more.  It was a very hard job that at times seemed overwhelming to me. Justin was gone every morning before 6:30am and was not home until 10:30pm or later at night.  It made a very frustrating and long week for me and the kids to not see him at all, but today I saw the finished product at the revealing and the joy on the lady's face was marvelous!  She was brought blindfolded to the house and saw it for the first time since they had begun the cleanup over a week ago.  She wept tears of joy and was overwhelmed with everyone's sincere giving of labor, time, and love. 

What little faith I had when I saw the house on Wednesday and saw how much was left to do.  But the Lord provides.  Everyone worked long hours together and got the house completed before the weekend was up so the lady could move it and everyone else could go back to their "regular" jobs.   

I was very proud of the people in the mission team who worked to make a better home for this sweet lady.  But more than that,  I was so proud of my husband for his sincere, giving spirit to help someone in need.  He worked hard everyday to get the job done.  I know the Lord will bless him, not because of the work he did, but because of the attitude behind the work.  God Bless to all!

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