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Do you know of a strong young man available this next Saturday to drive a truck for me?
I better give you the background; I don't recall telling you about it so far.
Back in the 1990s when I was still caring for my parents, my sister Elsie worked in Nipawin, and took a test to see what kind of work she would be best at. Turns out she'd make a great Health Inspector.
But the training was only offered in Burnaby, BC, or in Toronto. Her husband had left, so she packed up her kids, and all she could get into her van, and moved out west.
She had just considered starting a home business to do accounting for others, and had a good carpenter build her a nice desk suite; a desk, credenza, and two small units that could be arranged in a semi-circle around her in her living room. She offered it to me. So Dad borrowed a truck and went to fetch it.
I had the use of it in our living room until after Dad died in 2007. Since I considered myself just the one entrusted to look after it, I did not allow it to be sold at the auction.
Friends from church brought it to this wee little house for me once I had possession of it. It is only 160 sq. feet, and the suite fills this largest room.
Last year, in April, Elsie phone from Kelowna where she has retired, and she mentioned that her daughter, Jalise wishes she had this suite in Edmonton.
I turned my head to look at it and said, "She can have it." Later I called Jalise to tell her to come and get it.
The pastor of our church and his brother had built a desk for me in my basement room before all this... and it has more drawer spaces, which I need for my files, whereas Elsie's has only the equivalent of 8-9 drawers.
My desk is in my basement collecting piles of clutter. With my metal filing cabinet I'd have 12-14 drawers, using much less space!
I've been ticking off the Saturdays when Jalise & her husband might show up to get the suite. Then just about 4 weeks ago my sister told me that they couldn't afford to come get it yet.
I made it my business to check into the costs if I paid for a U-Haul truck, and had someone drive it to their home in Edmonton.
I've got a truck lined up! Now I'm looking for a driver! [I KNOW I'm not the right one!] So...if you know of a young man free on Saturday and willing to drive the truck there, I've got a job for him.
Jalise and her husband Chris are tall, strong adults who can help unload it.
The truck needs to be delivered to a U-haul location in Edmonton, instead of bringing it back here.
There are buses that go once a day between Edmonton and Saskatoon, so we can get the driver home again.
If worst comes to worst, I could follow in my car and bring the driver back that way, [But a 3 hour drive to and from Moose Jaw exhausted me a few years ago. So I don't think I could handle 5-6 hours each way -to and from Edmonton. Unless I let the driver drive us back here.]
Please do call or email me if you have a suggestion - for a driver - or even a volunteer!
P.S. I know I've shrunk too much to look over the top of the steering wheel of a truck!! Plus, no experience!
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How do you feel about "downsizing" possessions? My siblings have strongly recommended it, and I do see the value. I'm even willing to designate a daily hour or half-hour to do it. Especially now that my back is feeling much better.
Oh!! But what if I fracture my back again just to pull bins and boxes off the shelves in the basement?
I mentioned this worry to a friend on Sunday, and she recommended that I get a stronger friend to help me with that.
O-ka-y?? But who would have the patience to do that with me? We could get some chatting done all that time, but what if they want to be paid? What is the going rate for helping to downsize?
I brought Dad's homemade and sturdy shelving units when I moved here. They go around three sides of the basement walls. At least three broad shelves in each one. This "downsizing" project cannot be done in a single evening.
I'm guestimating 6 to 12 or even 20 hours. Sigh! Having a cheerful helper sounds so appealing-- but who would be up for that? Or, would I have to search for another friend, when the last one tires out?
Maybe I need to line up a pickup truck to take a lot of bags of garbage away to the dump site.
I tried putting out my garbage bin and 3 extra black bags in the alley recently. The regular city garbage truck ignored ALL of THEM! (I'll try just the black bin tomorrow morning....)
Okay. Let's see what kind of feedback, suggestions or volunteers this may bring.
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Many people worry about this. Those of us brought up in a Bible-teaching church probably already know what happens to Christians and what happens to those who do not trust in Christ for eternity in Heaven.
If you watch quite a few YouTube videos (a new habit I have picked up), you may have noticed a flood of videos about people who were dead for just a few minutes and then recovered and were present in this world again.
I have been surprised at how many of these testimonies are by people who have no Christian faith at all, such as Muslims, but they report meeting Jesus, and that He urges them to trust in Him for salvation and paradise after death, then sends them to return to their earthly lives and their new testimony often causes families and whole communities to trust in Jesus for Salvation!
Last night I watched this one by an atheist brain surgeon who came back a Believer in Christ Jesus!
Watch it here: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmTZKaE0g8A"
If you put "near-death experience" into the search bar you will get many more such testimonials!
I'm thrilled at how Jesus Himself is evangelizing people! Maybe we're too slow at this?
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