[Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered

[Grace Cangialosi]

That does sound good all the way around!

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>



-- 
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