[Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered

[Grace Cangialosi]

So this is your house they're buying, Jay? I got a little lost in there.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or, when God closes a door, God opens a window.
>
> I have fussed and fretted about the house I still own in Tennessee. I'd
> wanted my son to move into it, but he didn't really want to. So it sits
> there, getting overgrown and falling into disrepair.
>
> Meanwhile, my daughter and her husband were struggling to get it all
> together to buy my mom and dad's house in Tennessee, and just about had it
> done, despite the fact that my brother continued to throw all kinds of
> clods in the churn and last week threw a big one in that basically clogged
> the churn.
>
> So I asked for your prayers before I told my brother something I really
> didn't want to say. Then, after some prayers of my own, I called my
> son-in-law and something quite different came out of my mouth.
>
> Two days later he called me back and asked me the following: Could they fix
> up the house fit to live in, move in, finish fixing it up until it was
> salable, then buy it from me? They had been discussing that non-stop for
> almost 24 hours and that was the solution they came up with. He said it
> felt like the best thing for all of them. His mother is in that town, much
> of my daughter's support system is there, her other-mother is two doors up
> the street, there is an Episcopal school the boys may be able to attend
> through 8th grade (pending tuition affordability), the church Betsy grew up
> in is there......etc, etc. The pros far outweighed the cons. And as I told
> him, they didn't necessarily have to stay there forever......they could
> flip it to their hearts' content and then sell at a profit once they buy it
> from me, and then move wherever they want to.
>
> And oddly enough, my brother hasn't said anything at all to me. Not one
> word. Nor I to him. The only thing I have to say to him is that he can do
> what he wants with the house, and anything due me from the sale will go
> directly into trust funds for my grandsons' education. Whether our
> relationship is repairable may be up to him.
>
> Thank you all for your prayers, and please keep them coming for my daughter
> and her family as they work on the house, and for my peace of mind.
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

"There are a lot of amazing people out there to be thankful for--
and a loving God. that's what life is about."
                                                                   Robin
Williams,  1951-2014