[Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered

[Jay Weigel]

One of the odd things that's happened: When talking to Jonathan, I
mentioned that one thing I'd always wanted to do but never could get the
late ex off dead center to start on, was to enclose the back porch and
incorporate it into the house as a dining room. He said , "That is SO
freaky! My mom was just here and she said exactly the same thing about it!"
Great minds, I guess.

On Monday, September 22, 2014, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net> wrote:

> What a great solution for you, your kids and your former home!
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
> Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is
> leaning against the wrong wall.”
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:26 AM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>; "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Magdalen] Prayers have a funny way of being answered
>
>  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.
>>
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