God answers Prayers everyday. One day… one moment in time God answered so many of our prayers that we have prayed over a few years. Wait upon the Lord. 

For some reason that I may not understand for years to come, God either made or let us move in a rented trailer just North of Bowling Green Kentucky after my other half lost his job soon after 9-11. He lost his job and we lost about everything else. We all had to start over from scratch. 

The day we were shown the trailer we moved into, we realized it was about the best they had, but only a two bedroom and we have two children… Boy and Girl. We had seen another trailer that we liked and had planned to move into it but we were told that we could not have it. That was a blessing as we soon realized that the lot flooded every time we had any measurable rain. God was truly watching out for us.

We were blessed to find a couch and love seat, table and chairs, a couple dressers and two fold out chairs that served as beds for the kids at the Good will store for under a hundred dollars. Yard sales became our best source of getting items we needed to get our home set up. A friend of ours sold us a washer and dryer very reasonably…what a blessing not to have to go to the laundry mat!

We built a make shift wall to separate the front bedroom for the children and that worked to some extent, but the room was just not large enough to make two rooms that were completely functional. The size of the front bedroom was too small for even two twin beds to fit in it with the dressers, so my daughter spent her time on different make shift beds. I prayed to God for a bed for her and room to put it in.

The park was sold soon after we moved in and new management came in. It became very clear that they had no intention or perhaps they lacked the know how to maintain the trailers. We kept letting them know about the problems that cropped up and they did their very best not to get anything fixed. As a result, the ceilings began to leak, the walls and floors began getting wet during rainy times and of course Mold set in. Electrical problems cropped up and in general it cause me to worry about a fire perhaps breaking out.

My daughter and I have asthma. The mold did not help. I prayed to God for relief. The bed that came in the master bedroom was not good quality. The longer I slept on it, the more I prayed to God for a waterbed. My deteriorating lower disc seemed to deteriorate more every morning when I got up in pain and hobbled to my desk chair to sit until relief could be had. Dear God, please help.

Our washer was fun… it did clean clothes fairly well however one of us had to sit on it so it would not walk across the room. Finally the bathroom floor that was in need of replacing sunk enough so that the washer stopped walking. What a Blessing Thank you God. The dryer did a good job as long as the eraser stayed jammed in the door. That washer and dryer were not perfect, but they did serve us for the time we spent and we were thankful that we did not have to find a laundry mat. We will think back on that washer and dryer with fond memories I am sure. Dear God, we need something quieter and more steady please.

A friend of ours gave us an under the counter dishwasher they had replaced with a newer model. We got it installed and as we had thrown out the old non-working dishwasher, we felt it only fair to leave the working one when we left. You must know that I sent up a little prayer that if God would bless us with a new place to live that it might come with a dishwasher. They are great to help keep germs at bay during the cold and flu season. Not to mention a great time saver for anyone blessed with dishes to do.

After a couple of years it became quite clear that our living room furniture was falling apart. We eventually had to get rid of the love seat and we were given an over sized chair by a moving neighbor to takes its place. It was not in great shape yet it was functional.

I found that the last few months we lived in that trailer I had begun to worry about the hot water heater. It did not help that our neighbor had to have his replaced. So I would send up a prayer that the Hot water heater would hold fast just a little longer. Had it gone, it would have flooded our closet that was a storage area for things like Photographs and other memories that we wanted to keep.

I kept praying for a better place to live. But I had the children to think of. We had been in the trailer for three years. They had engrained themselves into the school system, developed friendships and as they both had found ways to achieve the honor roll, to uproot them, especially my son currently in high school, just seemed wrong. Dear God, please find us a place that will keep the children in the schools they are in within walking distance. We only have the one car and it leaves for work before the children return home from school.

It was becoming clear to me that I had a need for some cloths. It hit me when I realized I only had one pair of pants that fit when I had to go out in public. I offered up a prayer for a pair of pants so I could have at least two pairs that would work going out in public. As most of my day is spent working on line, I didn’t go out much except to the post office, grocery shopping, some odd yard sales and now and then I have been blessed with a meal at one of the few restaurants in town that I feel comfortable eating at with my food allergies. I also know my daughter had a need for some new socks and a few other items young ladies need.

Now, I want you to know that despite all the problems, we have been happy as a family in the trailer we spent three years in. We have grown spiritually and as a family. For all the bad, we had in our life; we had a lot of good and had a lot of fun. It was not a bleak time, by any means… Just I personally felt we could grow as a family and continue to grow spiritually, in a healthier home.

One day ... March 22, 2005 at about 10am, we were returning from a post office run and as we got almost home, a sign caught my eye. “For Sale or For Rent” To be honest, I had never even noticed that trailer was there, but that sign caught my eye and I just knew I had to know more. I wanted to walk back and get the number, but was informed the number could be copied down and called to me later that day, so despite the fact for the first time in my life, I was so drawn to a home to look at that I could hardly keep still, I waited and waited.