We, too, could use a “financial miracle”. Thanks, Doves, for praying! Our insurance business has just all but dried up this past year; phone stopped ringing, people stopped buying. We advertise as much as we can, but it does take MONEY to advertise, and when that’s tight, then it often seems a far better choice to buy groceries.

DH is trying to get on with a company where he hopes to make a salary to recruit & train insurance agents. So far though, no good prospects have come along. Only reason he couldn’t keep agents is b/c he simply has no leads to give them.

It seems tough, tough, tough to make a living in the sales world (and yes, Randy, I **DO** get tired of thinking like this! But of course, until Jesus actually does get here, we are told to go on making a living.)

I spend all day working, helping DH with office work, bookkeeping, advertising, marketing, filing, etc. etc. But I always pressure myself in thinking I need to be doing “more”….. taking on another job outside the home just to help pay our bills (of which we’re getting desperately behind!) But for me, the choices are more limited, because with MCS, I am SEVERELY allergic to perfumes, colognes, aftershaves, all synthetic fragrances.

Just try to go get a job where you try to explain that you need a “fragrance free environment” …. they look at you like you’ve got 2 heads, then pretty quickly usher you to the door. It is a very real problem, http://www.ourlittleplace.com/perfume.html

and perhaps the worst part of it is many do not believe you & thus, choose to judge & wonder how you get on in life. (like a hermit – that’s how!)

So my choices seem to be: do I take on babysitting (don’t know how that’d go over with DH now working from home, having shut the commercial office down); do we take in a foster child? (still praying about that); do I do telemarketing? Oooof! ~ something I literally have to **force** myself to do. My writing and editing skills are marketable, however, jobs are never consistent. Jobs that are not consistent = income that is not consistent.

At any rate, I realize it gets “old & dusty” to pray for ppl who seem to stagnate with financial challenges. And we want so much to get on past this! It’s never ever been our desire to be “rich” (according to the world’s way of being rich) but to be able to pay the bills on time all the time would be a rich blessing!

{Prov 30:7-9 Give me neither poverty nor riches—
      Feed me with the food allotted to me;
       9 Lest I be full and deny You,
      And say, “Who is the LORD?”
      Or lest I be poor and steal,
      And profane the name of my God.

Financial hardships can affect so many other areas of life: emotionally, mentally, your marriage, your attitude, etc.

So all I can say is thank you for praying & may God’s will be done, and a reminder that I pray for each & every one of your prayer requests as well!

Just pray for Robertsons in the Midwest U.S. Thank you & Maranatha!

Reva

P.S. I don’t think anyone asked if the stray dog (prayer request here at Doves) got placed, but praise the Lord – we found a good home for her!! GOD CARES about each & every little thing you are experiencing!! Cast all your cares on Him, for He is always thinking about you.

1 Peter 5: 6 So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor. 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. 8 Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. 9 Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your Christian brothers and sistersall over the world are going through the same kind of suffering you are.