A Miracle Happened on Friday Evening , September 11, 2009
Alan (my hubby) and I took our older daughter out for dinner Thursday evening Sept 10th and we had the opportunity to talk about certain things that have been hard for her to bring up for many years.
She and her sisters grew up at WOL and she for the first time told us how she hated every minute she was there. She told us how she blocked out everything Doyle would say each time they all went. I told her that was great because if she hadn’t done so already, would she please denounce Doyle as an Apostle or man of God, and to repent as well … I also shared our testimony about how after 8 years it took both of us to realize that this was such a needed thing for both of us to do in order to move on and start reaping all the wonderful blessings of God he had waiting for us…
Even though she feels it was a very traumatic time of her life, she shared with us that she believes that might be why she has become so talented as an artist because during the times she blocked Doyle out, she would basically doodle in her mind.
She has had a lot of unforgiveness towards her father and I. One for taking her to WOL, but mostly because we wouldn’t let her go away to college in New York. Of course she has since graduated from UD and is now 25 years old and has a wonderful art degree from it.
Even though Vanessa had come back into our lives many years ago, there was still some unforgiveness and bitterness towards us but she was finally able to talk about it that evening for the first time and I really think she forgave us.
As I meditate about this, I just wonder if by talking and forgiving on her part whether or not God was forgiving her too? I don’t know?
Well as the evening went, she told us that she was in need of a car because she had just started a new job and would need one to get around to all her appointments. Her previous job, she worked at for many years didn’t require her to have a car, so that was never a problem.
Alan talked to her about how we would try and help her and she notified us that she wanted to do this on her own!
As we walked out to the car and both Alan and I said we wanted to believe GOD for her car and that we would invite her to do so too! Alan even said he was going to believe for one without car payments!!
The next day Alan was pumped and decided he was really going to believe GOD for her car….the day was incredible, peaceful, calm and very productive….Alan had already decided he was going to the dealership that gives a free car away every Friday evening to win a car for his daughter and I decided to believe right along with him as we talked about it all day long. He and I basically even discussed how we wouldn’t need to have someone drive the other car home cause you have to do the paper work first and they get the car ready to pick-up the next day….
I ended up staying home because it was raining and was right in the middle of a project I had going so Alan didn’t mind cause he said, it wouldn’t take very long to get the paper work done and he’d be home shortly….the drawing was at 8:00pm SHARP and there was about 500 to 600 people there and at 8:25 Alan was calling me to tell me he was filling out the paperwork and would be home shortly. I was shocked at how I responded because I was not even shocked!…. even though Alan thought I didn’t believe him as he hands the phone over to the sales guy we all laughed!
We went to bed very thankful and woke up that way.
Our daughter called us the next morning early not knowing anything about the car and we had discussed all evening how we were going to surprise her, but hadn’t decided….So when Alan got on the phone with her the next morning he was so excited he blurted out GUESS WHAT GOD GOT FOR YOU LAST NIGHT!!! He told her and she was soooo happy and giggly and couldn’t hardly believe it…Bright Red Hatchback with Tan Leather seats, perfect car for Vanessa!
Alan says….….
