As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was blown away (and still am) that a member on this forum offered to let me stay at their rental home/real home should I need cancer treatment in Boston. To me that exemplifies the generous heart of that person in particular, and the people that are on this forum. I hope that person is especially blessed for their kind heart. A few years ago Katie and I had a chance to share our home and the results was amazing. ... Kym I had just got laid-off from the shipyard, had very little income coming in, when Katie told me her friend from New Hampshire had just been kicked out of her boyfriend's home with a 1 year old, and was staying at a homeless shelter in Claremont, New Hampshire...some 4 hours away...one way. There was nothing to think about, we dropped our kids at a sitters and went to go get her. The place was so nasty, teeming with such strange men that I would not let our car sit out in the parking lot without Katie keeping an eye on it, as I got Kym's things inside. But tough times was nothing new for Kym. Her mother had died at age 2 in a car accident, and her Dad died of cancer at age 7, she was a true orphan and staying with an aunt who hated the responsibility and physically abused all the kids. Boyfriends were not much better, losing her two boys in custody in the meantime. So for months she stayed with us with her young daughter, working two jobs to try and buy a car and get ahead, but when her Grandfather died, she went to his funeral in Boston. A Christian, his last act might have been his greatest as he insisted the gospel be proclaimed and Kym went forward along with two cousins in faith. For years Kym had lived with the same boyfriends, but never married, but 3 weeks after going to the funeral she was changed. She also met Shawn, and Katie and I got to sign our names on their marriage certificate as witnesses. Four years later, last year Kym and Shawn bought their house, both of them having good jobs and Kym running the women's ministry of their church, where Shaun runs the men's Ministry. Her ex-boyfriend got in touch with her and she now has shared custody of her two boys, and still has her daughter. In short, in 5 short years, Kym has proven God's word. "Whoever shall call upon the name of the lord, shall be saved." In this case God chose to do so in a miraculous way, not just in her faith, but physically taking her from a homeless shelter, to her own home in 5 years time. ... If you are ever in the position to share your home, do so; the short inconvenience that it can be, is worth a lifetime of feeling blessed in doing so.
