” …. Father, we offer our prayer, not in self-righteous judgment, but as your weary children—longing for the Day when the knowledge of your glory will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:14)—when perfect peace will replace every expression of evil.
“Until that Day, free us from all bitterness and a lust for revenge. Vengeance belongs to you, not to us. Make us warriors of peace and agents of hope. Our labors in the Lord are never in vain. The gospel of the kingdom will prevail. Defeated evil will be eradicated evil. The devil is filled with fury for he knows his time is short (Rev. 12:12). Make it much shorter, Father, much shorter.
“Grant us wisdom to know what loving mercy, doing justice, and walking humbly with you looks like in Paris, and in our own communities. Replace our frets and fears with faith and trust, and our rage and wrath with patience and courage. So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ triumphant and grace-full name. ….”
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Lee is very down today. He spent most of yesterday filling out online applications & uploading his resume to job openings. (One of them kept making him start over when he was a little slow in finishing. He finally decided to put all the info on a Word document, then copy-&-paste it to the site, so it would go quicker. That worked.)
This morning, he spent a good deal of time doing that for a particular job that was right up his alley. Upon submitting it, he immediately got a message that said he did not meet the minimum requirements of the job. That is ridiculous, & obviously not true. We figure that its scan program must look for “DUI” & automatically reject the application. 😦
The thing is, he has done his best work in the 13 years since that DUI.
On the site of another job he applied for, it said that a DUI disqualifies one from a position with the company.
Lee said now he is wondering if selling the route was the wrong thing to do (of course, it wasn’t). He buried his face in his hands & wept & prayed for a while.
Karen–having watched my son apply for jobs for 7 months now, all I can say is encourage him, tell him he’s wise and let him get some sleep and rest. I’ve been outraged at the callousness of so many companies NOT responding to applications. It’s not that hard to set up an automatic reply: “we got your application.”
My son has heard so little from so many, even when he had a personal walk-in, it’s galling. And the blind application process online just makes it worse. You don’t have to look people in the face to say, “no, thanks,” but it’s harder on the applicant.
Stargazer finally got a call back for an initial interview with my husband’s company. Despite flagging the application with the name of the president of the company, despite having all the science and technology people read the resume and tell my husband how excited they were about the possibilities, despite the stellar resume, he heard nothing for three weeks.
While in a personal conversation with the company president the other day, and after a week of praying about whether he should say anything, my husband mentioned Stargazer had not had any sort of response at all. The president blew up, couldn’t believe it. Stargazer got a phone call the next day.Interview Monday.
HR tends to be the worst culprits. They screen on a very narrow range of requirements and if you hit one glitch, you’re immediately dumped. And as this case shows, that includes the personal referral and stamp of the president of the company being overlooked.
All four of my children have gotten their jobs because of personal referrals. Lee is a good man with a good reputation. He might consider asking the people he’s worked with at the grocery stores and so forth if they know of a job. He could ask someone he trusts to look at his resume and give him some feedback. Prayer of course is at the backbone of it all but it’s important to remember he’s been through a gruelling job for a long time. He needs work, of course, but I think he needs time to process, regroup and regain some personal strength and equilibrium.
Easy for me to say because I’m not looking at your bank account.
If there is a junior college near you, consider going in for some vocational counseling. His skill set may be broader than he realizes and the job possibilities may be outside of where he’s thinking of looking. I don’t know. But we live in a time where to be professionally successful–in whatever arena–we need to be somewhat entrepeneural. He should think broad, not narrow, and pray God to spark his imagination.
That’s my advice, for what it’s worth.
He needs you to support him and tell him you love him and think he’s wonderful and you’ll be with him no matter what happens. (Which he already knows). Share your worries with the Lord and put your trust in what He is doing, even when it looks uncertain. Wish I lived closer to help.
Karen, if the DUI is over seven years old (you said 13), tell Lee to say NO on the application.
There is a “legal limit of liability'” that, I think, applies.
I GOOGLED “legal limit of liability” but the response was not clear.
I would say, NO” on the application and, if the issue came up in an interview, it can be explained.
You have to get around automatic rejection by a computer.
Computers don’t know.
I was once denied insurance because I was the legal co/owner of a house my parents lived in.
They made an insurance claim against it.
I was denied auto insurance in the 1990’s because of that.
If anyone asks me now, if I were ever denied insurance.
The answer is NO.
Long past the legal limits.
Thank you, Michelle & Chas. Lee will not be including the DUI on any future applications, & he is casting a broad net in his job search.
Michelle, you wrote, “…he needs time to process, regroup and regain some personal strength and equilibrium.” I definitely agree with this. My prayer had been that he would get a job offer quickly, but be able to take off a couple weeks before starting. That way, he could truly rest during that time, knowing he had a job to go to.
Well, this is all in God’s hands. I just wish sometimes he would give us a clue to what’s next. 🙂
Hubby is in the same boat. He was up for three jobs not long ago and never heard from any of them. We are getting by on freelance work and money from my brothers for staying with Mama and helping with the bookkeeping she use to do. I have a feeling the bookkeeping is just an excuse to pay me for staying with Mama. They knew I was looking for a job when all this hit.
But that job provided the resources you need when you needed them. I see God working like that all the time–not in the way we particularly want or that is obvious: a job, but through the bits and pieces that put together make up enough.
We had a terrible year once when my husband was not employed–though we had military retirement. We had a kid in college and three at home in a big house in the country. It was close, sometimes very close, but we had just enough every month.
When he finally got a job, we had to move and then 9-11 hit and we owned two houses with mortgages. He had a good job, but the mortgages stretched us so very tight . . . I had a huge matrix on when and how to pay each bill but they all got paid somehow.
That, for me, was a good experience to try to understand what “normal” people go through all the time. I fussed and fumed and complained and maligned God trying to “get him to sell that other house,” since it was clear we were supposed to move and buy the second house.
The “year of the never ending house sale,” taught me that God is sufficient to meet our needs but not necessarily our wants–particularly when my wants were that I would feel security and not trust God to provide it.
I don’t know if that helps you or not, but there it is. Off to help my son move.
You are right Michelle. It has also given me time to pick back up on a book I’ve been writing. I had dropped it when issues with the Kid got very time consuming. The first time my brother paid me came unexpectedly the day after we had gone through everything, including the couch cushions, trying to come with the Kids basket ball fee. Hubby was about to tell him he couldn’t pay that year when I walked with almost three times the money we needed. .
Lee & I both have colds, & the tiredness that comes with them, but we also have to babysit our very active five year old grandson today (from 10:00 to about 5:00). I really am not up to this. Prayers for strength & patience, please. Thank you. (Staying home from church due to our colds.)
Praying Karen — colds are worse in the morning, praying that your symptoms will ease up as the day goes on, but that is a long babysitting stint.
Praise: I let the dogs out at around 6 a.m. and about 10 minutes later went out to drive the Jeep out of my driveway to park on the curb as the tree guys are due back later this morning. That’s when I noticed the back/side gate standing open (it was closed last night, but I should have double-checked to make sure it was firmly latched).
No Cowboy, of course (Tess, the homebody girl, was still inside), but I figured he hadn’t been out long. So I got Tess leashed up to go with me to look for him, her being in the Jeep would make it more likely for Cowboy to jump in … We’d just gotten onto the front porch when here comes Cowboy, happily bounding up the sidewalk, up the steps and onto the porch, I guess figuring “we” all were going somewhere since Tess was leashed up.
He was a little stunned when he wound up locked back inside the house and I unleashed Tess. 😦 Poor guy. What a letdown.
Fence is now latched, I’ll make sure to double check it when the guys leave today.
The approx. 12 year old son of a good friend of hers has been missing since about 5:00 yesterday afternoon. Please pray for his safe return. Thank you.
I may not be able to be online for much of the day, so could someone else who is a Facebook friend of Cameron’s please keep an eye on her page for an update? Thanks.
Not sure if I’m going to get to church today either, kind of hate leaving the dogs locked inside with the guys working as Tess was so stressed by it all yesterday.
Meanwhile, I’m having more trouble with the anonymous sources who are upset by a story I wrote (not referring at all to them, but somehow people are wrongly speculating to them that info given to me by a police sergeant — which I used with no name in the story — IS one of them and so they decided to gripe publicly about it in a FB post last night; I responded to a couple comments trying to explain (again) but it was not accepted (again) and they’re saying the story was “irresponsible.”).
Soooo, prayers for me as I’m feeling really irked and annoyed and snippy with these people now and I’m convinced they know they’re wrong & are just being obtuse at this point. I’m not saying anything more to them (on the thread or privately, I can’t handle anonymous tipsters who have to be babysat through the process), I’m done with discussion, I have explained my position and feel that’s that. I’ve never, ever burned them, never would, and for them to blame me so publicly now because others think something written was about them when it wasn’t & isn’t and never was (and they know that) — is just nuts.
But they’re really aggravating me. 😦
Argh.
So.
Prayer for me to calm down about this, to not harbor a grudge & to move on and not to engage in the back-and-forth.
Thanks. Person sent me another long complaint via private message, I kept my response short & simple, said I understood what she was saying and was sorry that speculation wrongly landed on her as being the nameless person referred to in the story (as helping police on a particular matter); but that I hoped she understood what I was saying as well.
What I’m kind of picking up is that there was some pre-existing discord between the person referred to by police (and in my story) & this other person (who fits a similar description and is being ‘blamed’ for being a snitch) who now is all over me.
Drama.
Too much on a Sunday morning.
My other problem is trying to get cash to pay the gardeners; was going to give him a check but he said he’s prefer cash. But it’s a lot of money and I’m running into ATM limits as no banks are open until Monday.
I pay the gardener with a check each month, but this endeavor involved a 4-man crew and he (Oscar, son of Jose the gardener) wanted to give the guys some actual cash for the long day they’d put in (which I understand) — he also said he’d just paid his own mortgage so was pretty short himself, but he insisted it was OK, and now a couple of the guys have returned to finish/clean up today. I think they’ll still have to come back again for more.
I’ll try to hit the ATM see if I can maybe provide at least 1/2 in cash today, the rest tomorrow if he wants to swing by to pick that up.
I’ve known these guys ever since I moved in (they worked for the former owner), they’re good guys, hard workers, resourceful and polite. I just wish I’d had a heads up on the cash, I could have gone to the bank yesterday but by the time they left & we talked (3:30), all the banks were closed (being a Saturday).
This day is turning out to be very pleasant. Thank you for your prayers. Forrest has generally been cooperative, & has been enjoying hanging out with his Mimi & Papa. (He recently had been in a phase of acting like he didn’t like us.)
The weather is nice & mild enough (sunny, temps in the mid-50s) to be playing outside without heavy coats. We are about to have hot dogs for a late lunch, then may go out for a ride somewhere.
Thanking Jesus for the blessing of letting us be a big, integral part of this little boy’s life.
Cameron’s post about her friend’s missing son was deleted a while ago. I sent her a private message, asking if there was any news, but she must be busy with church.
Wondering if it was a lost/run-away situation since he was an older kid.
My day took a better turn as well — I managed to scrounge up the cash via ATMs (just hoping the bank now doesn’t flag my debit card for weird activity!). And I’ve reconciled with the source who was so upset; seriously, it was just one of those stories that had completely unintended consequences that I never could have foreseen or even guessed at. Sigh. Anyway, we’re OK I guess, she said she was going to take the post down which is fine, we all had said what we needed to say.
Tree guys are still here, but Oscar had to go to another job that was urgent (homeowner had received a citation from the city for his overgrown ficus tree) so he’ll be here later for the money. I’d also like to include a tip for the guys, so I’ll ask hm how he wants to handle that.
Walked the dogs up to the park this morning to see the ducks, but sure missed not getting to church. Oh well, it happens.
My back & front yards are piled high with branches, so lots of cleanup and chopping and hauling left to do still.
Yes, Cameron told me that he has run away before, but never overnight. He’s usually found at a friend or relative’s house. I don’t know where he was, but he is home now.
Wandering Views 
Please pray for me as I prepare to preach tomorrow at a Thanksgiving service in a town about two hours away from us. Thank you.
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Got it.
Praise that daughter and son in law are here, for early Thanksgiving.
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http://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/scottysmith/2015/11/14/a-prayer-of-lament-in-response-to-the-terror-attack-in-paris/
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” …. Father, we offer our prayer, not in self-righteous judgment, but as your weary children—longing for the Day when the knowledge of your glory will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:14)—when perfect peace will replace every expression of evil.
“Until that Day, free us from all bitterness and a lust for revenge. Vengeance belongs to you, not to us. Make us warriors of peace and agents of hope. Our labors in the Lord are never in vain. The gospel of the kingdom will prevail. Defeated evil will be eradicated evil. The devil is filled with fury for he knows his time is short (Rev. 12:12). Make it much shorter, Father, much shorter.
“Grant us wisdom to know what loving mercy, doing justice, and walking humbly with you looks like in Paris, and in our own communities. Replace our frets and fears with faith and trust, and our rage and wrath with patience and courage. So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ triumphant and grace-full name. ….”
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Lee is very down today. He spent most of yesterday filling out online applications & uploading his resume to job openings. (One of them kept making him start over when he was a little slow in finishing. He finally decided to put all the info on a Word document, then copy-&-paste it to the site, so it would go quicker. That worked.)
This morning, he spent a good deal of time doing that for a particular job that was right up his alley. Upon submitting it, he immediately got a message that said he did not meet the minimum requirements of the job. That is ridiculous, & obviously not true. We figure that its scan program must look for “DUI” & automatically reject the application. 😦
The thing is, he has done his best work in the 13 years since that DUI.
On the site of another job he applied for, it said that a DUI disqualifies one from a position with the company.
Lee said now he is wondering if selling the route was the wrong thing to do (of course, it wasn’t). He buried his face in his hands & wept & prayed for a while.
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Thank you Donna. I came on to just post. Pray fro Paris
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Karen–having watched my son apply for jobs for 7 months now, all I can say is encourage him, tell him he’s wise and let him get some sleep and rest. I’ve been outraged at the callousness of so many companies NOT responding to applications. It’s not that hard to set up an automatic reply: “we got your application.”
My son has heard so little from so many, even when he had a personal walk-in, it’s galling. And the blind application process online just makes it worse. You don’t have to look people in the face to say, “no, thanks,” but it’s harder on the applicant.
Stargazer finally got a call back for an initial interview with my husband’s company. Despite flagging the application with the name of the president of the company, despite having all the science and technology people read the resume and tell my husband how excited they were about the possibilities, despite the stellar resume, he heard nothing for three weeks.
While in a personal conversation with the company president the other day, and after a week of praying about whether he should say anything, my husband mentioned Stargazer had not had any sort of response at all. The president blew up, couldn’t believe it. Stargazer got a phone call the next day.Interview Monday.
HR tends to be the worst culprits. They screen on a very narrow range of requirements and if you hit one glitch, you’re immediately dumped. And as this case shows, that includes the personal referral and stamp of the president of the company being overlooked.
All four of my children have gotten their jobs because of personal referrals. Lee is a good man with a good reputation. He might consider asking the people he’s worked with at the grocery stores and so forth if they know of a job. He could ask someone he trusts to look at his resume and give him some feedback. Prayer of course is at the backbone of it all but it’s important to remember he’s been through a gruelling job for a long time. He needs work, of course, but I think he needs time to process, regroup and regain some personal strength and equilibrium.
Easy for me to say because I’m not looking at your bank account.
If there is a junior college near you, consider going in for some vocational counseling. His skill set may be broader than he realizes and the job possibilities may be outside of where he’s thinking of looking. I don’t know. But we live in a time where to be professionally successful–in whatever arena–we need to be somewhat entrepeneural. He should think broad, not narrow, and pray God to spark his imagination.
That’s my advice, for what it’s worth.
He needs you to support him and tell him you love him and think he’s wonderful and you’ll be with him no matter what happens. (Which he already knows). Share your worries with the Lord and put your trust in what He is doing, even when it looks uncertain. Wish I lived closer to help.
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Karen, if the DUI is over seven years old (you said 13), tell Lee to say NO on the application.
There is a “legal limit of liability'” that, I think, applies.
I GOOGLED “legal limit of liability” but the response was not clear.
I would say, NO” on the application and, if the issue came up in an interview, it can be explained.
You have to get around automatic rejection by a computer.
Computers don’t know.
I was once denied insurance because I was the legal co/owner of a house my parents lived in.
They made an insurance claim against it.
I was denied auto insurance in the 1990’s because of that.
If anyone asks me now, if I were ever denied insurance.
The answer is NO.
Long past the legal limits.
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That sin has been forgiven by everyone but the computer.
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Thank you, Michelle & Chas. Lee will not be including the DUI on any future applications, & he is casting a broad net in his job search.
Michelle, you wrote, “…he needs time to process, regroup and regain some personal strength and equilibrium.” I definitely agree with this. My prayer had been that he would get a job offer quickly, but be able to take off a couple weeks before starting. That way, he could truly rest during that time, knowing he had a job to go to.
Well, this is all in God’s hands. I just wish sometimes he would give us a clue to what’s next. 🙂
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Hubby is in the same boat. He was up for three jobs not long ago and never heard from any of them. We are getting by on freelance work and money from my brothers for staying with Mama and helping with the bookkeeping she use to do. I have a feeling the bookkeeping is just an excuse to pay me for staying with Mama. They knew I was looking for a job when all this hit.
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But that job provided the resources you need when you needed them. I see God working like that all the time–not in the way we particularly want or that is obvious: a job, but through the bits and pieces that put together make up enough.
We had a terrible year once when my husband was not employed–though we had military retirement. We had a kid in college and three at home in a big house in the country. It was close, sometimes very close, but we had just enough every month.
When he finally got a job, we had to move and then 9-11 hit and we owned two houses with mortgages. He had a good job, but the mortgages stretched us so very tight . . . I had a huge matrix on when and how to pay each bill but they all got paid somehow.
That, for me, was a good experience to try to understand what “normal” people go through all the time. I fussed and fumed and complained and maligned God trying to “get him to sell that other house,” since it was clear we were supposed to move and buy the second house.
The “year of the never ending house sale,” taught me that God is sufficient to meet our needs but not necessarily our wants–particularly when my wants were that I would feel security and not trust God to provide it.
I don’t know if that helps you or not, but there it is. Off to help my son move.
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You are right Michelle. It has also given me time to pick back up on a book I’ve been writing. I had dropped it when issues with the Kid got very time consuming. The first time my brother paid me came unexpectedly the day after we had gone through everything, including the couch cushions, trying to come with the Kids basket ball fee. Hubby was about to tell him he couldn’t pay that year when I walked with almost three times the money we needed. .
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A man can’t “rest” when he’s out of a job.
No matter how much sleep he gets.
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That’s my thought, too, Chas.
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Stargazer did not get the job her interviewed three times for. Disappointed, as many of you understand. He’s got the interview Monday. Thanks.
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Lee & I both have colds, & the tiredness that comes with them, but we also have to babysit our very active five year old grandson today (from 10:00 to about 5:00). I really am not up to this. Prayers for strength & patience, please. Thank you. (Staying home from church due to our colds.)
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Praying Karen — colds are worse in the morning, praying that your symptoms will ease up as the day goes on, but that is a long babysitting stint.
Praise: I let the dogs out at around 6 a.m. and about 10 minutes later went out to drive the Jeep out of my driveway to park on the curb as the tree guys are due back later this morning. That’s when I noticed the back/side gate standing open (it was closed last night, but I should have double-checked to make sure it was firmly latched).
No Cowboy, of course (Tess, the homebody girl, was still inside), but I figured he hadn’t been out long. So I got Tess leashed up to go with me to look for him, her being in the Jeep would make it more likely for Cowboy to jump in … We’d just gotten onto the front porch when here comes Cowboy, happily bounding up the sidewalk, up the steps and onto the porch, I guess figuring “we” all were going somewhere since Tess was leashed up.
He was a little stunned when he wound up locked back inside the house and I unleashed Tess. 😦 Poor guy. What a letdown.
Fence is now latched, I’ll make sure to double check it when the guys leave today.
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Posting this on behalf of Cameron…
The approx. 12 year old son of a good friend of hers has been missing since about 5:00 yesterday afternoon. Please pray for his safe return. Thank you.
I may not be able to be online for much of the day, so could someone else who is a Facebook friend of Cameron’s please keep an eye on her page for an update? Thanks.
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Not sure if I’m going to get to church today either, kind of hate leaving the dogs locked inside with the guys working as Tess was so stressed by it all yesterday.
Meanwhile, I’m having more trouble with the anonymous sources who are upset by a story I wrote (not referring at all to them, but somehow people are wrongly speculating to them that info given to me by a police sergeant — which I used with no name in the story — IS one of them and so they decided to gripe publicly about it in a FB post last night; I responded to a couple comments trying to explain (again) but it was not accepted (again) and they’re saying the story was “irresponsible.”).
Soooo, prayers for me as I’m feeling really irked and annoyed and snippy with these people now and I’m convinced they know they’re wrong & are just being obtuse at this point. I’m not saying anything more to them (on the thread or privately, I can’t handle anonymous tipsters who have to be babysat through the process), I’m done with discussion, I have explained my position and feel that’s that. I’ve never, ever burned them, never would, and for them to blame me so publicly now because others think something written was about them when it wasn’t & isn’t and never was (and they know that) — is just nuts.
But they’re really aggravating me. 😦
Argh.
So.
Prayer for me to calm down about this, to not harbor a grudge & to move on and not to engage in the back-and-forth.
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I saw that post, Karen, will try to check back on it
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Five year olds are active?
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And this little guy, as an only child, is an attention hog. Good thing he’s so stinkin’ cute. 🙂
Donna – I know the feeling, from my futile discussions with YF. It’s so very frustrating. Praying for calm & peace in your heart.
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Thanks. Person sent me another long complaint via private message, I kept my response short & simple, said I understood what she was saying and was sorry that speculation wrongly landed on her as being the nameless person referred to in the story (as helping police on a particular matter); but that I hoped she understood what I was saying as well.
What I’m kind of picking up is that there was some pre-existing discord between the person referred to by police (and in my story) & this other person (who fits a similar description and is being ‘blamed’ for being a snitch) who now is all over me.
Drama.
Too much on a Sunday morning.
My other problem is trying to get cash to pay the gardeners; was going to give him a check but he said he’s prefer cash. But it’s a lot of money and I’m running into ATM limits as no banks are open until Monday.
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I’m suspicious of people who insist on cash.
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I pay the gardener with a check each month, but this endeavor involved a 4-man crew and he (Oscar, son of Jose the gardener) wanted to give the guys some actual cash for the long day they’d put in (which I understand) — he also said he’d just paid his own mortgage so was pretty short himself, but he insisted it was OK, and now a couple of the guys have returned to finish/clean up today. I think they’ll still have to come back again for more.
I’ll try to hit the ATM see if I can maybe provide at least 1/2 in cash today, the rest tomorrow if he wants to swing by to pick that up.
I’ve known these guys ever since I moved in (they worked for the former owner), they’re good guys, hard workers, resourceful and polite. I just wish I’d had a heads up on the cash, I could have gone to the bank yesterday but by the time they left & we talked (3:30), all the banks were closed (being a Saturday).
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A prayer for rest:
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This day is turning out to be very pleasant. Thank you for your prayers. Forrest has generally been cooperative, & has been enjoying hanging out with his Mimi & Papa. (He recently had been in a phase of acting like he didn’t like us.)
The weather is nice & mild enough (sunny, temps in the mid-50s) to be playing outside without heavy coats. We are about to have hot dogs for a late lunch, then may go out for a ride somewhere.
Thanking Jesus for the blessing of letting us be a big, integral part of this little boy’s life.
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Cameron’s post about her friend’s missing son was deleted a while ago. I sent her a private message, asking if there was any news, but she must be busy with church.
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Wondering if it was a lost/run-away situation since he was an older kid.
My day took a better turn as well — I managed to scrounge up the cash via ATMs (just hoping the bank now doesn’t flag my debit card for weird activity!). And I’ve reconciled with the source who was so upset; seriously, it was just one of those stories that had completely unintended consequences that I never could have foreseen or even guessed at. Sigh. Anyway, we’re OK I guess, she said she was going to take the post down which is fine, we all had said what we needed to say.
Tree guys are still here, but Oscar had to go to another job that was urgent (homeowner had received a citation from the city for his overgrown ficus tree) so he’ll be here later for the money. I’d also like to include a tip for the guys, so I’ll ask hm how he wants to handle that.
Walked the dogs up to the park this morning to see the ducks, but sure missed not getting to church. Oh well, it happens.
My back & front yards are piled high with branches, so lots of cleanup and chopping and hauling left to do still.
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The boy is home. Praise God!
Yes, Cameron told me that he has run away before, but never overnight. He’s usually found at a friend or relative’s house. I don’t know where he was, but he is home now.
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