December 13, 2012

• Jehovah-Jireh

  Our water bills here in Anderson CO are totally screwed up. The sewer charge is ridiculous; has to do with county politics. So the sewer charge on the bill is about 3x the charge for water.

  On a $20 water bill, paying $55 for the sewer charge is galling but still manageable. We grit our teeth and move on.

  Well, one of the few conditions Coart asked of the Kueblers when they moved in was for them to cover the water bill, since it would be the main area where their presence in our house would really affect our finances. Jane agreed. The first couple rounds weren’t too bad. (In fact, I wondered if there was a mix-up somewhere….)

  When I opened December’s bill last week, I nearly died — it was $520!  Jane and Coart had their own personal heart attacks….

  and then we just laid it on the table and said, “OK. This one is bigger than us. So God’s gonna have to pay it….because we sure can’t.”

   

  So on Wednesday Coart was opening mail and found that someone anonymously sent us $100. Cool.

  I said to Jane, “Hey, this is awesome! Because yesterday, I got a Christmas bonus from Erskine — totally wasn’t expecting that!”

  Bonus was $300. “We’re 4/5 of the way through the water bill!”

  Jane jumped up, strange look on her face, and rustled through her wallet.

  She emerged with $100 — “A college friend said his mom was up to visit last weekend, and he had told her about our situation, and she told him to give us this money.”  A hundred dollars.

   

  And that is how God paid the water bill.  

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