Monday, July 25, 2005
“Where there is no vision”
Proverbs 29:18 reads; “Where there is no vision the people perish.” KJV
Marty is the lady whose house I worked on along with many other people during our ASP trip to Carter county Tennessee.
She had made a commitment she could not keep, as she later learned.
Marty is a single mother who has four children. Two of them are grown but still live with her. The youngest is a fifteen year old boy who likes to go hunting, fishing, and show pictures of the game he has “bagged” and the fish he has landed.
April is his seventeen-year-old sister, talented in art, who became instant friends with my favorite seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Aren. The two older brothers are off doing work for the summer elsewhere.
The commitment was to have the construction completed on her new house by a certain date (for financing purposes.)
The volunteer labor she had enlisted did not always perform as had been promised and Marty was in trouble.
The lumber came from the building lot where the house now stands, a trade with the sawmill guy. Some materials had come from other buildings, the roof cover was purchased from the manufacturer at incredible savings.
The house was so close to completion but so was the deadline!
Marty prayed.
Appalachia Service Project agreed to help!
Marty had not given up. When I talked to her she only discussed the future. No looking back for this lady. There were no complaints about a husband gone drinking never to return. No complaints about cold snowy winters……………just the vision.
The house is to be a bed and breakfast when the children are grown. She will build two cabins right over there, farther up the hill to include in her B&B. Marty has experience, she works at one now. The outbuilding behind the house is to be her upholstery shop.
She also works cleaning houses; she does upholstery…………whatever is needed to take care of her family.
God bless Marty and her children.
Shalom Y'all
Charlie
Proverbs 29:18 reads; “Where there is no vision the people perish.” KJV
Marty is the lady whose house I worked on along with many other people during our ASP trip to Carter county Tennessee.
She had made a commitment she could not keep, as she later learned.
Marty is a single mother who has four children. Two of them are grown but still live with her. The youngest is a fifteen year old boy who likes to go hunting, fishing, and show pictures of the game he has “bagged” and the fish he has landed.
April is his seventeen-year-old sister, talented in art, who became instant friends with my favorite seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Aren. The two older brothers are off doing work for the summer elsewhere.
The commitment was to have the construction completed on her new house by a certain date (for financing purposes.)
The volunteer labor she had enlisted did not always perform as had been promised and Marty was in trouble.
The lumber came from the building lot where the house now stands, a trade with the sawmill guy. Some materials had come from other buildings, the roof cover was purchased from the manufacturer at incredible savings.
The house was so close to completion but so was the deadline!
Marty prayed.
Appalachia Service Project agreed to help!
Marty had not given up. When I talked to her she only discussed the future. No looking back for this lady. There were no complaints about a husband gone drinking never to return. No complaints about cold snowy winters……………just the vision.
The house is to be a bed and breakfast when the children are grown. She will build two cabins right over there, farther up the hill to include in her B&B. Marty has experience, she works at one now. The outbuilding behind the house is to be her upholstery shop.
She also works cleaning houses; she does upholstery…………whatever is needed to take care of her family.
God bless Marty and her children.
Shalom Y'all
Charlie
