Oh, how horrid!!!  That’s worse yet!  I pray she’s found happiness now?

I asked the Lord about our situations, but He had His reasons, only a small portion of which I am aware.  For one thing, right after Carol came into my life (via email), Richard and I found out that the land we were renting from a so-called friend was sitting on property that didn’t really even belong to her, and that the County was planning to move us off the property as a result!  So we had to search for another place to live.  Richard wasn’t working at the time, due to his many illnesses, so we weren’t able to get a loan to get enough of a down payment to put on another home, so were between the proverbial “rock and a hard place”.  Then when Carol lied about her grown children beating her up, I felt sorry for her and invited her to live on our property.  And since the Lord knew our situation appeared hopeless.

So Carol moved here and bought our mobile home from us.  We took that money and put it down on the house we live in now, which we adore, and which is cheaper than any property (2 acres) and home I’ve ever seen in my life!!! We would have been unable to afford anything more expensive than this place was.  It’s truly a blessing untold!
 
For another thing, when Carol moved here, she didn’t know diddly squat about the Lord.  Richard & I talked endlessly about Him, and taught her to be grateful to Him, and taught her His ways.  It doesn’t appear to have done much good, but we never know to what extent our Spirit led actions affect other people, so maybe they did SOME good anyway.  I sure hope so, for her sake.

Carol’s major desire after she met us was for me to be HER daughter, no matter what it took.  If I were to become her daughter, then she could control me.  She liked to be in charge, and she liked to be able to use others for her gain.  The Lord showed us early on what she was really like, and we didn’t allow her to use us.  So she got in deep with my 83-year-old Mom and my elderly aunts, and spun her webs of deceit with them.  She bilked my Mom out of a BUNCH of money, because my Mom wouldn’t hear anything I said about what she was really like. It was so frustrating.

You are right though, sis… we need to be ever so careful, and now I’ve learned that just because someone is elderly, doesn’t make them trustworthy.  I come from a HUGE family, of which MANY were elderly as I was growing up, so I thought all elderly people were like them.  They are also an extremely loving family, and the biggest majority of them love(d) the Lord with all their hearts.  Live and learn.
 

I’ll be ever so happy when we’re in the Lord’s Kingdom, and will never have to worry about things like that again!  Even so, come SOON, precious Messiah!
 

Love from your sister in Yahshua!

Peggy
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