prayer

Well since I am not on Facebook, I will post and keep track of it here. Today in the mail, I received a letter from waukesha county saying that they were given $2,095,000 in grant money to victims of the June 2008 flood. This money is on a first come first serve basis and need to be applied for. We have requested the application and we will go from there. Here are somethings we could use the money for:

• 2 new basement windows
• mortor to fill in the cracks in the lannon foundation room so we can paint it with the waterproof paint.
• more waterproof paint and stone so we can digup one side of the house and paint the outside walls, fill it back up with stone to create a "rock garden"
• replace the driveway
• possably sod the back yard?
• replace the basement stairs
• 2X4s and insulation to finish off our room in the basement

Other than the last 3 bullet points these are some MAJOR steps that we need to take to waterproof our basement and make it useable into a play area and bedroom for ourselves. These are things that we would really like to accomplish and know would improve our house value as well as our state of living here. The last three are bounes if we are able to get enough money to do them. So if you could please join us in prayer that we follow God's lead through out the process as to if we get the money to how we spend the money if we get it. We want nothing less than to Glorify God's name. We know that he has been ever present since the first inch of water in our basement. He has seen us through. We also know that he used that flood to repair a relationship in our family, he used the flood to declutter the house and open our eyes to Him as the provider, he used the flood to get us some major things for the house that he knew we could never afford(furnace, watersoftener, central air, roof, hot water heater).

Jesus, we are looking to you for guidance so our Father's name can be glorified yet again!