12/13/2011
Today was an awesome day filled with more God induced coincidences. This morning my cell phone rings. Which is extremely odd because I hadn’t had cell service since Monday. But the phone rings and its Jesus Casillas, the owner of the old Willy’s building. He said he was in town and wanted to meet. We scrambled to get everyone ready to go see the home of the “The Crossing!” I had planned, when... the time came to go look at the building, a committee of people that I wanted to go along. Well as I have learned in the past that whenever I want something done my way, God intervenes and gives me what I need, not what I want. But God did things his way again!!!!! As luck goes, the folks that I wanted to go along were all together in Bolivar watching Pinto Basketball! Well Crud, we are on our own, not really, I just wanted things to work out the way that I wanted. I was hoping I would have the money thinkers (Jeremy, Angel and Darrell) there when we started talking numbers. And my dreamer friend (Cher) to be there with cool ideas on what all could be done with the space and funds allowed.
I think we were all pleasantly surprised by the condition of the building and just how easy going Mr. Casillas was to talk to. With some much needed cleaning the kitchen would be ready to go in a heartbeat. There is a woodworking room in the back that would keep Ed out of the cold when he worked on his projects. Jesus said that he used to woodworking room to build the tables and benches for the Mexican Restaurant. This could be the space where Ed builds his tables and chairs for The Crossing! A two bedroom apartment that would give him shelter. One of the two apartments were painted with bright colors, (Mara called it cheery). One concern about the building was the roof. It had been replaced when the building was bought about three years ago. I wish I had the money in the bank to write him a check on the spot, but God WILL provide what we need to get this project off the ground. He has done so much already! And I need is thank Him for those blessings instead of going down the “I wish” path. We got home from our outing to sit down and talk about the in’s and out’s with a few of the kids. By the way, we had Mexican food for lunch. No coincidence that Willy’s owner is Hispanic and it was the old Mexican Restaurant. I wanted to make one call before we set down for lunch and found that I no longer had cell service. I guess you could call that pretty cool! Gonna go to church to hang out tonight, and thank him for his love and persistance!
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