Another interesting bit, to file under, "God's Creative Ways to Provide."
One of the stumbling blocks in front of selling our house (one of the requirements for our moving to Atlanta) has been the condition of the roof on our old house. We had to replaced one section this year (roughly a quarter) when it started leaking badly. The north facing part of the roof is still in good condition, due to the fact that it gets very little sun beating on it. However, the largest (south facing) part of the roof is very old, and the shingles are curling badly, and we were thinking that we needed to replace it before selling.
Well, we had a pretty serious wind storm here in Rochester last week. There were a lot of trees and power lines down in the area, and some people took several days to get their power back on. Thankfully, we didn't have any tree damage, however the wind did peel off a couple dozen shingles on the southern side, enough so that the roof REALLY needed to be repaired before we could sell the house. We called up our insurance company, and after taking a look at it, they agreed to cover the damage -- enough to go over that entire section of the roof. (They aren't paying to replace the entire roof, but we weren't expecting them to.) It's not a huge amount of money, and there's a deductible we still have to pay, but it's a lot more than nothing, which is what we had before.
So, God sent a storm to damage our roof so that we could get the money to replace it.
(Hummmm... I guess sometimes God DOES speak in the storm. ;-)
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Wow, looks like the storm did come at a good time. God works in strange ways.
So let me get this straight. You live in Rochester, NY, and moving to Atlanta, GA? When are you moving? I enjoy keeping former Rochester residents informed on current events. I hope you visit my blog again!
Everyone keeps asking me that question... ;-)
If you look at the "Tales of the Tryons" posts, they should pretty much lay out the reasons why we're going. In short, I have accepted a position at the Operation Mobilization US headquarters down there (in Tyrone, actually), working in the IT department. It is a World Missions organization, and as such, all the members have to raise their own support. So, we will be moving down there when we have basically received pledges of support from enough people to cover our salary.
I hope to keep in touch. I have family up here too, so I should have plenty of updates, but it's always nice to have information from a different angle.
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