[Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered

[Jay Weigel]

They had been trying to buy my parents' house for the past year. Now they
are going to buy mine.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>