It has been a busy spring and it has been hard to meet for prayer with my Lois Ministry group. I miss them and miss the prayer times we have for our children and grandchildren.
We left FL mid April, met some friends for Birding in the UP of MI, then returned to our home in Manistee only to discover that it had been junked by our renters. Some dear friends had already come in to clean it but there is still much to be done. We emptied out the house and have been cleaning, fixing, and restoring for weeks now, taking a couple weeks off to visit our family in MN. We are now settled in, well, as much as we can. Air mattresses are our beds, we can only cook by an electric fry pan or grill and just recently got hot water....so you might say, we are camping out at the farmhouse. We have what we need to get by, thanks to friends and Goodwill. Our hearts are in this job of restoration but our bodies are fighting it. We still don't know if we will even have this home a year from now.....that all depends on the bankers here in the area. Will they work with us, is the big question, and we hope to know more next week. The house is up for sale, but we are considering making MI our home state again and it would be nice to stay here. So that is the update from the Bos'.
In all this time away from FL, we have been able to visit the family. It has been good to see everyone and we look forward to more time this summer with them here at the farmhouse. Seeing the grandchildren, always reminds me the need for lifting them up in prayer......to never give up, even in these busy times of our lives.
I have been feeling a bit guilty lately about that.....as I said before, not being able to meet with other Grandmothers. Even though I have prayed on my own there is something about gathering together with others to pray for our own family members as well as others. As I have always said, there is "MUCH power in MUCH prayer". Yes, we will have busy times going on in our lives, BUT I will never give up!!! I can see the spiritual battle going on for these kids and I will fight for them in prayer!!!
There is a story about never giving up and MUCH prayer:
In the summer of 1876, grasshoppers nearly destroyed the crops in MN. In the spring of 1877, farmers were worried. They believed that the dreadful plague would once again visit them and again destroy the rich wheat crop, bringing ruin to thousands of people. The situation was so serious that Gov. John S. Pillsbury proclaimed April 26th as a day of prayer and fasting. He urged every man, woman and child to ask God to prevent this terrible plague. On that April day all schools, shops, stores and offices closed. There was a quiet hush over all the state.
The next day dawned bright and clear. Temperatures soared to what they ordinarily were in midsummer, which was very unusual for April. Minnesotans were devastated as they discovered billions of grasshopper larvae wiggling to life. For three days the unusual heat persisted. (Despite all this the people continue to pray.) It appeared that as the larvae continued to hatch it wouldn't be long before they started feeding and destroying the wheat crop.
However, on the fourth day, the temperature suddenly dropped, and that night frost covered the entire state. The result - it killed every one of those creepy, crawling pests as surely as if poison or fire had been used. It went down in the history of MN as the day God answered the prayers of the people.
Always pray - never give up. Never doubt that God can do a miracle. His ways are so much higher and better than our ways. I say again......Pray always and never give up!!!
