Lately though enough has happened (literally one blow after another) that all I could do was try to "Give it to God", as my mom would suggest. I gave the following to God and I will say in advance that He solved EVERYTHING for me. All I had to do was pray, and truly believe He would help me. These incidents are listed in roughly the order they occurred.
- Our rent went up ridiculously high for no good reason but corporate greed.
- Illness prevented me from working enough to be able to keep up with this increase.
- I lost my free health insurance
- Our car insurance doubled due to the addition of a car my parents gave my daughter and a fender bender my son had.
- My cat Jasper got into a fight and half the side of his face was torn off. Could not afford the vet.
- A collection agency for a loan i had to take when my ex-husband was abusing drugs and stealing from us attempted to garnish my wages right after all of the above happened, to further ensure i would sink and drown my family.
Needless to say, I started to really pray in earnest. I feared homelessness was right around the corner. I have too many medical issues not to have insurance; losing mine was a death sentence because of that therefore i was unable to sleep, dwelling on it and making myself sick, causing more missed work. The insurance i lost had been covering 100% of my medical bills with no deductible or copay. With the other bills going up, there was no way I was going to be able to afford a plan that i actually had to pay for.
On top of all this, I have been extremely worried about Jasper. I've been treating his wound myself. Those two things on top of everything else made me start wishing to die in my sleep. Seeing that I don't have the nerve to kill myself. Or maybe it's the conscience. Don't think i could do that to my family. But dying seemed so much easier than facing all of this. Coward's way out, sure, but a way out i thought at the time was my only option. And the more worried and stressed i became, the sicker i got, and the more work i missed.
I won't go into all of the details about each thing, but a combination of prayer, loving parents and raw faith in God has resolved every single issue above.
The rent didn't go back down of course, but a major monthly bill was gratefully taken off my hands making the increase affordable. This same action settled the collections agent who will not garnish my wages, and even bumped my credit up a bit so we don't have to live in this over-priced house next year.
I have been able to nurse my cat back to health on my own with no complications so far, no infection and he is healing more and more every day. Other than the huge neck-brace looking bandages i fashioned for him, he seems like the same cat. No loss of appetite, no lethargy, and best of all he does not appear to be in any pain. At all. He scratches at the wound every chance he gets, too.
We found a new car insurance company who is charging us way less, and my son, who is on the policy, paid for six months of it up front.
I skeptically went to healthcare.gov and looked around, and unexpectedly came out with a plan that all of my doctors and medications accept, and it will come out of my tax return, no monthly cost.
I've had a mild sinus infection and some aches and pains but i have been able to work. Yesterday I was given the news that I was accepted as a Pass Mentor. This is the final step to becoming a facilitator, and when that happens my new income will be a game changer.
WHO ELSE BUT GOD!!!!
Praise our Lord Jesus Christ
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