Summer Speedos | Beyond the Basics: Furnishing a Fresh Start

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to keep it short or speedy. Let's just call these

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summer speedos. Short action packed dives into the

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Enough chit chat. Let's get on with the summer Speedos.

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Hi. My name is Rob Allen. Recently, we Medicare

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portal need that was very special to us and

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impactful. We went to, meet the need and

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2 beds are requested. So we showed up with the beds and and we met

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mom and the family and found out that, you know, they had been reunified

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after, about 8 months of being apart and she was just

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trying to get her life restarted.

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You know, we looked around the apartment. There was really just, nothing.

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There was a couple of blankets and pillows on the floor where they had been

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sleeping and no furniture whatsoever.

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We asked her, you know, don't you think you need some other things? And she

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said, no, this will be great. You know, she didn't wanna ask for too much.

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So, you know, after talking for a while, we kinda said, you know, we'd

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love to to really bring you some furniture if we could.

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And, you know, we think that we have enough connections that

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God can make that happen.

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To make a long story short, I guess, we've been back 6

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times to see her and her kiddos and have made quite the connection

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with them. Really, appreciate, you know, what she's gone

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through. And as strange as it sounds now when we call her

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and she calls us by our first names, which just seems,

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like that makes the connection all the more real.

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Our very last time that we were able to, go over there,

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God blessed us with a Christmas tree and some ornaments with them.

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Just, you know, didn't cost us anything. Just God made it

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happen. So she was so appreciative, and, you know, we've really

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developed a relationship.

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On top of that, we had a businessman at our church who

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said, hey, do you know any families who would possibly wanna be

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adopted this Christmas? And and, of course, we said, yes. We'd love

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to tell you about this family. So we, you know, got permission

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from her, and he was able to go over there with his wife

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and, you know, with just a slew of Christmas presents just to bless

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them at Christmas. So, you know, at 1 point,

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you know, we were all just talking outside of the apartment,

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mom and the 2 kiddos and us, and, you know, they hugged us

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and we were able to just tell her how proud we were of her

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and, you know, how, you know, we were just praying for her and if she

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needed anything and just, it was a great a great connection

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that we were able to make. Blessed us for sure, and we were able to

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bless her and God came through in an amazing way. So I just

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wanted to share that and hope this blesses you as well.

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