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The Homeschool Book Shop Newsletter>
Bringing Home the Inventory
September 30, 2008
Last night, a very weary crew of three children, one grandma, and a mother pulled into Spokane with the the moving truck. The final boxes (70) and the last round of shelves finally made their way into the Shop parking lot. If you drive by on Wall St., you will see the truck and a growing pile of cardboard (anyone need some cardboard for a display board or an exciting project of castle building? It's free!
Jonathan True, a homeschool graduate from Spokane, is assembling shelves, moving all of the 50lb boxes of books single-handedly and generally doing all the jobs he's given. I couldn't have made it this far without him. He even rescued me when I was floundering with the tangle of cables, cords and mysterious contraptions that comprise the electronic brains of the store.
The inventory has been sitting in our handy-dandy storage unit in Lynnwood, WA. After a flawless loading and departure, yesterday, we caravaned home (Grandma driving our car with the kids while I drove the 16' truck). I had a quiet moment to reflect on the last 6 months of our lives. I was praising the Lord with my whole heart! His guidance in our lives has never been so obvious! Time and again opportunities have come and gone for major hitches or set-backs, but our good God has pushed us through like a box of books on carpet (books on my mind at the moment). I was praying that the Lord would keep me turning my eyes toward Him.
At one point in our journey, just after praying for God to keep me looking toward Him, I misjudged the turning capacity of the truck and to my dismay I impaled an innocent car sitting in the gas station slot next to me. It was absolutely my fault! I didn't judge the wide sweep of the back end of the truck accurately. Even in my humiliation, though, the Lord was showing His love. The daughter of the car's owner shared with me that she had just spoken to a friend that morning whose son had gone to the hospital with an emergency appendectomy. This friend had shared that she had been reading in Job 2:10. "But he said to her, 'You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?' In all this Job did not sin with his lips." (NASB)
Here was the daughter of the woman whom I had run into and she was telling me that in her family, they were determined to accept both good and adversity from the Lord. Perhaps she was also encouraging me to be at peace with accepting this from the Lord as much as the blessings He has given.
I am not telling this little tale as well as it ought to be told! Truly, my heart was filled with rejoicing when all was said and done! In my humiliation, the Lord still brought encouragement to me through the victim of my oversight. What a mighty God we serve!
I don't know if I will have an opportunity to speak with this family again. I am so sorry to have damaged their car (no one was hurt), but it was a blessing in the midst of unlooked for trouble to meet a Christian family who loves the Lord with all of their hearts!
May God bless them!
After this little adventure, all proceeded smoothly. As I mentioned previously, the truck is parked in front of the shop and the cargo has been safely delivered into its new home!
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