Our family is in the process of creating space for one more person tonight after an unexpected telephone call at 11:30 PM. We had spent the evening in Dubuque at a sophomore baseball game. We got home around 10:30 and Sharon drove over to the school shortly afterward to pick up Jon and to drop several team members off at their homes. When she got to Lucas' home, things were piled up in the lawn and something was noticeably wrong.
A few minutes after Sharon and Jon got home the phone ran. We wondered who could be calling us at this late hour. Lucas was on the phone calling from Quick Trip asking if he could spend the night with us as his family had been evicted from their house. Josh and I drove the the QT in Marion to pick Lucas up. We made a quick rearrangement of bed rooms, rounded up some spare clothes and a tooth brush, and fixed something to eat. And now an hour later we are sitting in our family room with a new member of our family! You never know when the phone will ring and everything will change.
How about you, what person has God brought into your life lately? How are you and/or your family creating space for one more person? Please pray for Lucas and his mother and that God would use this in both of our families.
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Kim & Sharon,
Praise God you could take in Lucas! Praying for him and your family during this time. Your family is an inspiration to many!
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