I am a mother of 4 and critically ill with having well over 45 + face & Brain surgery's, not to mention all  the other surgery's and medical problems due to complications,
   The reason I am writing you is because I'm need some "Personalized" help in seeking a way That I can bring in a income to my family, I want to teach my children that it does not matter the situation that you keep on trying, I want to do Honest work at home that has no start up fees. I only get $350,00 a MT disability and no other help, So I need to find a job that I can work at home,.I have always ran my own company's . I had my own practice in Sports Medicine before I got sick then I use my Knowledge  in Homeopathic Medicine, To make Herbal scent moist heat packs and eye pillow, I made natural Soaps and Body Oils, and I even Made whole made Chocolates. My 4 children as well as myself would take it the flee market every weekend and sell what we had made all week. Around that time is when all the brain surgery's  started and 18 hrs a day of Intravenous medication, It was bit difficult hauling 4 children all my product and walking with in Iv tubes coming out my chest, what a site that was "lol" we managed for a while sadly the demand for he product became to great for me to make all by myself everyday in my kitchen,
  That started me studying gemstones after brain surgery, I spent 2 years studying gemstones, I did sell high end jewelry on Ebay , but  During a move we were robbed. "long story"  they stole Everything we owned I do mean everything and the insurance did not cover excuse they found a loop hole as usual. Now I have no other income, Please Know that I'm not a Victim I am a Survivor & I am very blessed I have the privilege to be with my children as they grow up when they said I would not live this long "what do they know" "lol". 
    I have learned many life lessons, I can't do much physically now but I do some kind of craft everyday with the younger children,We have done so many different craft. We draw paint, do clay, the favorite is making Jewelry but that is a treat because the pretty crystals are expensive, I can work on the Computer,
   I know the end and out of a how to run a company to having happy personal , they will do a better job, To satisfying the Hardest to Please customer, I keep my self up to date learning and studying the newest trend to the next big craft, I know how to do Advertising, I like being very creative, I know how to do import and export, In my journey, I have been blessed to learn many Life lesson along the way. I have been on the Top and I have been on the bottom. I will not give up and I will not ask for sympathy, I'm not different than anyone else, I just have a few Challenge but don't we all. The reason I won't sell on Ebay, Is because the market has changed and the fees are to high, There only a few ways to make money on Ebay now, One is to be a Huge company that is able to import the inventory, Or to lye, If I can't do it honest It's not happen.
       Oh my I can't believe I just told everyone all this, I guess it because I know if there an opportunity for me to become part of your team I would fill honored and privileged,
   Thank you for what you do and if you have any ideas, Please pass them my way.
        May you be Blessed 10 fold.
             Best Regards
                StacyAnn

 Well I can't really say much about me worth any thing considering , I was a active alcoholic most of my life and I finally went to prison for 17 month's , I took my GED while I was there and passed everything but the essay, of course , so now I will try to improve in that area and just maybe I will accomplish that before to long. I'm just trying every day to be a better person , mom ,daughter , friend , maybe one day wife.

   I would like to own a home one day, that way Lance and Joshua always have a place to call home.

 I've been disabled for half there life and mine to. I would just like to have a home that is ours and know body could take it away from us.!

Hi everyone . I am a 40 year old female looking to open a restaurant and night club her in north centrall florida . I habve a loan approval for 70 & of the LTV but I am shy another 300k .. any one wanting to take a chance on me > I can repay it back in full with in 60 months or longer

I am an older woman ,married and live in central Florida.

I've had to learn new ways this past year to bring income in.I pray alot and God moves.That's all I know.I've had some of the most difficult situations and have had to  prioritize my life,be honest with my choices and count on God to do the parts I could not do.

Some of the changes are to have just a home phone.No cell bill. The income did not support that.We almost lost our house.It was awful.

I started keeping my eyes open for things to sell on craigslist and ebay.Both brought in money,though not large amounts.

Then I realized I could rent a couple of rooms out.I'd been using them for an office and storage.I made changes which were not comfy at first but when the renters came,I felt better.Here's a little more on that ~

Consider renting out a room in your home if you need money.Remember to be the home that good people would enjoy living in.Clean,with pleasant atmosphere. It can help you with the elec.bill or even extra gas money.

Advertise on craigslist.com free ,add a pic of the room if you can.

I did this and got a wonderful renter ! We enjoy the  extra $ right now,husband's job has dwindled down in hours to a standstill..we really needed to make the choice to rent out a room,an idea the Lord gave me.

Be careful,let the person know in the ad if you need a non smoker,light or no drinking and be sure to let them know in the ad that you require a picture I.D. which you also send to your local police in case there's a problem you need to know about BEFORE they move in.

A google search on their name can reveal important info too.

God Bless!

Lynn

My name is Shirley.  I am a single 40 year old mother with an eight year old daughter who I  truly adore.  I don't know whether I will receive help, but I hear to just vent sometimes relieves the underlining stress. You see, 7 and 1/2 years ago, I was diagnosis with a terminal illness which eventually the doctors say I will die from, but I have faith in God and all of his miracles.  I was diagnosis with Primary Pulmonary Hypertension.  Now the doctors told me some seven plus years ago that I had one year to live, but I'm still here.  I was also told that this disease affect one out of every 10 women, how lucky could I have been to be one of the few to receive such a blessing.  At first I took it hard as I had just had my daughter and I could not understand why my God would take me out of her life so soon as I thought to myself that I would not get the chance to see all of her first events.  This in itself gave me hope.  You see at this time, the doctors told me that this disease was a very expensive disease.  I thought nothing of this as I was a working mother (Social Worker) with insurance which I thought would cover the expenses, but it did not.  Subconciously, I thought that all of my life, I have been helping families and their children survive far worst abuse and neglect in their lives which I loved and still love to do.  I'm still working, but I found out that this was not enough.  The depression came on, the denial, and the stuffing began.  I had to find money where ever I could.  I have had to refinance my home three times, and had to even refinance my car.  It was the best decision at the time, but the worst in the long run in my efforts to pay off my bills.  Now I'm $125,000.00  in debt.  I have to use over extended credit cards to pay for gas to get back and forward to work.  I live from pay check to pay check with no money left over at the end of the month.  I've asked for help from my family, but they have put me on some pedastal because I was always the one who was level headed and managed money the best.  They still don't believe how expensive this disease is.  The medicine I have to have cost some $5,000 -10,000 dollars a month.  Because of my debt, I can't provide for my daughter the way she needs to be.  You see she always tell me that God is with us and is going to take care of us.  I believe it, truly do.  But I was told by my father that it was okay to ask for help.  But it seems that no matter how much help I ask for, it always leads to a dead end.  You know, I've never taken my daughter on vacation.  I have to work everyday, so that I can earn travel money to help take care of my monthly bills.  I just can't do it by myself anymore.  I've asked daughter's father to be a part of her life, but he want. She's hurting so, and there is nothing that I can do.  I want to retire from work so that I can spend time with her, but I can't because of the debt I have amast.  My daughter tells me no to give up, so I want, because it was not until recently, I realize that my daughter is my immediate family and if something happened to me, she would not have anyone.  I mean that she would have extended family, but it want be the same for her.  I'm all she has.  Everyday, no matter what I have, she is always happy to come home with me.  True love. You see, I can't afford daycare and  I know that my mother will take care of my daughter but I also know that my mother's nerves are shot right now and that she is not able to see after her. I tell my mother that if I was able that I will take care of my own daughter because I love her that much.  You talk about stress.  Now it would take a miracle to get me out of the funk that I've been living in as far as my finances because for the last 8 years at the beginning of every  year, I get to have even more medical bills to my portfolio of bills which is added to my debt.  I can't see my way out of it.  I don't know what to do except Pray.  I'm sorry for venting so much about my problems, but right now, I do feel better.  I'm grateful, that I'm alive and still able to work, and provide the best that I can for my daughter, and she is grateful also, because she only wants to be with me.  I want to be debt free, stress free, spirtual free, and whole again.  Something that I didn't say is that my skin is changing so.  I took my make-up off and my daughter asked me why my face was turning black.  I told her the truth of course.  I told her that the disease I have affects every part of my body and that my face just happen to be one of the areas.  I tell her not to worry, but I know that she does.  I showed her a picture of me many years ago without the darking on my face, and she hugged me and told me that she wanted to be a doctor to so that she can heal me.  You see, how can you not want to do what you can to be there for her.  There is so many pressures on me that I know that I can't do it alone. My house is leaking, the foundation is shifting because I'm in a flood area, I have no savings as it has been exhausted, I can barely pay my bills, my mortgage is almost my entire paycheck as well as my car note which have been refinanced several times.  I'm tire of having to refiance as I see myself getting further and further in debt. My house have been rob, my car as been broken into, my car insurance have sky rocket because of accidents which I was not even responsible for. The only good thing that has come from all of my problems is my daughter. I love her so much.  I'm trying to teach her how to be humble about the things that she has and the things that she don't have.  I continue to enstill in her good family values which places God at the head of both of our lives. I don't know what to do anymore. I see myself doubting that I deserve anything.  My daughter assures me that I do deserve it.  What is so troublesome about this is that I suppose to be the one comforting her not the other way around.   Don't nobody know how I feel, except for God and now you.  My doctor name is Dr. Michael Baumann, Pulmonary Specialist, who works at The University Hospital and Clinics.  He telephone number is (601) 984-5650.  Now I don't know how long I have as my doctor is wanting me to consider having a Lung transplant which he says is the only real cure for my disease.  But after researching, I found that my life expectancy will only be for 5 years.  I got to believe that my God still performs miracles.  So please, if you can help me, will you.  I'm praying for any individuals, foundations, and other help aid groups will assist me.  Call me from time to time to say Hello or just to ask how I'm doing.  Even my clients don't believe that nothing is wrong with me.  They say that I'm strong and that I'm in the right field as I fight for the abuse and neglected children and that they should be grateful that I'm who I am.  You see for the last 15 years of my life, I help families locate resources to help them out, now I'm in the same boat, and you know what, there are no resources available for single working women who are in debt.  How ironic is that.  I feel like I'm begging which is obvious the my clients  feel when they come into my office for help.  I 've always tried to help them no matter what because I've told them for so many years that it takes a brave and strong individual to come through the department of human services doors to ask for help, and I'm still proud today, because I never made them beg or plea.  I told them and still tell them that it was not my money and that this is what the money is suppose to be used for.  Now, I'm asking for help.  So if you could help me locate $125,000.00 to pay off my current debt and any extra money to offset future debts, I would be grateful.  I thank you for listening to me vent on and on about my life.  I love helping others and now I need help for myself and my child.  I provided my doctor's number so that you can call him yourself if you want to.  I have nothing to hide.     I have nothing to gain for lying.  Thank you so very much.   

Hi . I have been praying and I need a Miracle, I came across you, Maybe you have some ideas.My name is StacyAnn ,I am a mother of 4 children, I am critically ill with having well over 45+face & brain surgeys, and yeras of intervenous medication. I have many other surgey's do to other heath issues, I have a bone infection in my face, it has eaten the bone, I have now lost my teeth and Dentures wont stay in, Because there not enough bone, Of cource they can take hip bone and re build but, insurance wont cover, I have a skull fracture that wont heal and part of my eyebrow bone fell out.
I worked as long as I possible could even selling jewelry on Ebay, But I have no Celia i.e. no filter beside the infection that wont go away I am always sick, I even go home a soon after major surgery's  ASAP from the hospital because,The Dr don't want me to get sicker in the hospital. There much more to my story, But I find it rather boring, I need Help I only receive $356.00 MT from disability that took me 7 years to get because my illness was not in there books, I need prayer for my Children, We have a lot of needs but I am not one to ask. I don't want people to feel sorry for me, Because, I have been blessed to still be alive to watch my children grow up. I have also been able learn a lot of life lessons. That few have been blessed with, I have no parents for help or other family growing up in the sysrem. It been a long hard road and I need some guidance, I cant afford to live in a good area and it is really pulling my children down, My oldest Daughter has received many awards and even has to poem published, she in all honor class, but she is slipping because of the neighborhood a young man has really got her into trouble , My younger children have no one to play with because it is not safe, I am not worried for myself as I am for my Children,The gangs are moving in, Please pray and pass my name on God know my needs more than I know, SO I believe if things are meant it will happen .May you Be Blessed 100 fold. Thank you For Your time, I think the more people I can get praying for my family the better, I am having to have another major surgery in the next couple of weeks, My Best Regards StacyAnn TJSANOBLE@AOL.COM  

Hello, I am not looking for a miracle as i have lost faith there is such a thing. All i ask is that you look within the kindness of your heart and help me save my home from forclosure. I am going through a very nasty, unhappy divorce and my spouse refuses to pay any of our outstanding bills or our $2500 per month mortgage. i am currently Ill and cannot work or afford to come up with the shortfall,  I need ti raise as much money as i can as soon as possible or else i will be forced out into the street. This divorce is devestating and my spouse refuses to help. They want me to fail as punishment for the divorce. Please, any amount of money you can offer woud be greatly appreciated.

Greetings!!

Do you feel you make your own destiny, how much of it is luck? The breaks we are given and  take thoughout our life. If you had taken the right opportunity would youre life now be diffrent? We can change many things in our lives but the one thing we can not change is people, for example you cant make someone love you, but you can change the way you deal with the fact that you cant make that person love you/like you, you can throw yourself into something positive (anything that does not effect someone or something in a negative way).  Always remember there is more than one kind of love and many places to find it. Just because you dont feel loved or kinship with your family doesnt mean that a good friend or even a loving animal cannot fill the void and in many cases do a lot better job.  To quote a Garth Brook song "some of gods best gifts are unanswered prayers" (sometimes we dont know whats good for us).

I - like most at this website am asking for a monetary gift. I am currently working and feel that I am finally getting back on my feet again after being in a life altering flood in 1993 (I know what the people for New Orleans will be/are facing). Was it the choice I made to buy into an area that I could aford that threw me into that situation (the flood)? I now am half a century old and as of 2004 have purchased as much house as I can aford, (which is no where around a flood plain). I have over extended myself or at least am living paycheck to paycheck. I am dreaming that maybe If I had less finanacial burden I might be a more enjoyable person to myself and my 13 year old. If anyone would like to pay all or part of my 109,000. mortgage to Wells Fargo, you would make the last half century of my life a much better place than the first half.

Do I feel that I will actually get my mortgage payed off - no, but Im doing something positive that doesnt hurt anyone. Maybe someone would be willing to give an aging person a job that pays more than 30000. a year, I did go back to school in 2000 to try to increase my income, it did increase my income by about 5000 per year but now I owe 10000. for my college schooling. Mine plight is not a pending as other at this website but as the saying goes. There are two things you can count on taxes and death nobody said it was going to be fun or easy. 

hello,

our story begins in 2000, soon after we were married my husband suffered his first heart attack. we both have always believed in working for what we have. we are the first ones in line to help others.iIn 2003, he had pacemaker surgery, in 2005 he went through 2 femoral bypass surgeries, in 2006 with continued chest pain he had stents placed. we were told he would have limited life expectancy, being the realistic we are, we preplanned our funerals. last april 23 after eating birthday cake and talking to the grandkids my husband suffered his 2nd heart attack. he was told he would never work again. for a man who has always worked this was a major blow for him. because after everything else that had happened he always went back to work. we filed for the social security disability and we are still waiting.  with only my income , i couldn't afford the house, car etc.  we lost our house, we sold most of our possessions and moved to ohio to be closer to the grandkids.  i found a job, and although we lived paycheck to paycheck, we were okay.  mike transferred his files to an ohio cardiologist, who recommended a heart cath because again the chest pain was unbearable. so on march 21, 2008 we drove to osu ross heart hospital for what we thought would be a routine procedure.  mike hadn't been in the cath lab but a few minutes when i heard "code blue cath lab two". immediately a nurse and chaplain came running to me.  it didn''t look good.  he was shocked 20 times, placed on life support and the doctors worked furiously on him.  the family was called in, i was told to discuss the final arrangements.  on march 22, his femoral artery blew and required a graft, the graft caused compartment syndrome to the right lower leg. thanks to a very keen nurse, they performed a emergency fasiotomy to save the leg. the 23rd, still on life support they took his back to the cath lab and were successful in placing stents to the vessels blocked. he came off the ecmo on tuesday and the ventilator that thursday. we have thanked God everyday. out faith remains strong.  he stayed for almost 5 weeks, due to developing a blood clot, wound care etc. all the time his spirits stayed up and his desire to come home grew stronger everyday.  since i had only been working for my employer for about 6 1/2 months, i was told i was eligible for FMLA or an extended leave of absence, i used what few days of sick time etc i had. i lost my job.  mike had his last surgery on april 15.  on april 16, i drove to mcdonald's for coffee before going to give mike his bath, but i didn't make it.  someone pulled out in front of me. i was taken to  taken to er, with injuries. now my car is totaled. we are both recovering now. my insurance ends april 30th. we have no savings, no resources. if anyone would like to help,  thank you for your time.

I am a hard working mother, of two beautiful boys. On feb 1st of 2007 I slipped and hit my head. I had a seizure and a mild stroke I was out of work  and only by the grace of god. I was given a second chase at life again. With months of tests and all types of thearapy , I feel good I may never be as good as I was before but I'm getting stronger every day. I have all types of bills and I am going to loose my apartment because I can not catch up with the bills. I just don't know what to do anymore. If there is anyone out there who can help my children and I. It would truley be a blessing

Recent stroke victim.

First, I thank and appreciate God for this testimony. I'm reminded
> that I can never take this time I have here on earth for granted.
> Everything I do is all for the glory and honor of God. On Friday,
> December 28, 2007 around 8:00pm I was driving to a friends house to
> attend a Christmas Party. While driving, I began to feel numbness
> travel down my right side then my vision on my left side began to fade
> away. I began to ask …Lord what is this?" I thought maybe it would go
> away but it did not. I was very close to the house in which I was
> traveling; so I decided to continue. Upon arrival I could not walk on
> my right side, could not speak (speech was slurred ) Every one looked
> at me as though I started the party off early by drinking prior to
> attending. They gave me food in an effort to sober me up. Not able to
> recognize signs of a stroke. I realize that the food was hard to
> swallow and I was not getting better. So, I decided to leave and did
> so. How may know that God is good all the time?.......
>
> God is the author and finisher of my faith He is Omni-present.
>
> As I was driving I was praying…"Lord if you allow me to get home I
> will never go to another party again: I will go where you tell me
> only…" How many know that he will show up and show out? He began to
> speak to me and give me instructions…"Don't go home, go to your
> daughters house…" I responded…"that's even father…" (I was thinking
> about my eye condition) I was already driving in the slow lane and
> cars seemed to be passing me at a high rate of speed. How many know I
> obeyed? When I arrived there I could not get out of the car so I call
> her on the cell phone with my good eye. (He left me with one good eye)
> She came down and I asked her to help me out of the car and listen to
> her response…"I think you are drunk Mama.." and I said to her …"When
> have you known me to drink or do drugs…" but because of the slurred
> speech she thought that I had been drinking.
>
> Whose report will you believe? I chose to believe the Report of the Lord.
>
> My daughter awakened me the very next morning. She had unsuccessfully
> attempted calling so she decided to drive over and check on me.
> When she entered the bedroom and I attempted to get up we both
> realized that I had paralysis on my right side and quickly made a
> decision
> to get me to the nearest emergency room.
>
> After arriving and careful examination they decided to rush me to an
> awaiting bed. Three doctors (Neurosurgeons) came in immediately,
> they ordered a CT Scan. The results of the scan showed (Cerebral
> Hemorrhage) a bleeding in the brain from a nerve ending. They
> prepared my mother and daughter for the worst. Some of the doctors
> comments went like this …"we can't operate because it's in
> a place that we can't get to…" she is going to slip into a comma..."
> "…We have not seen anyone live from these types of stokes…"
>
> How many know God can and will?
>
> Is any sick among you. Let her call for the elders of the church: and
> let them pray over her…and the prayer of faith shall save the sick…and
> the Lord shall raise her up (Paraphrased) James 5:14-15
>
> The total stay in the hospital was 12 days. They started with an IV
> (Potassium). I was in ICU for 24 hours. I then transferred to the
> floor where the IV was removed. I stayed on the Neuro wing for 7 days,
> thereafter I was transferred to the rehab unit for 4 days.
>
> During my stay I had an overflow of spiritual visitors. They included
> an Apostle, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Deacons, Missionaries, and
> other Men and Women of God to visit and pray for me. …"prayer of faith
> shall save"…
>
> The doctors ordered a total of two CT scans, one MRI and one EEG.
> After the last CT and EEG they decided that I should go home. The last
> doctor to see me stated …"the CT scan showed the hemorrhage healing
> itself and the EEG showed everything normal"…
>
> The physical therapist said that I was at 90% and did not see any
> reason for me to stay. She did recommended outpatient therapy three
> times a week for three weeks. …"the Lord shall raise"…
>
> I'm at home without medication and moving slow to gain my strength
> back. Continue to Pray my strength in the Lord as I pray yours.
>
> Its my prayer that my miracle would be a blessing in your life or the
> life of someone who needs to know that God is still in the Miracle
> Working Business (MWB).

I am in need of any assistance that you can give. My family is limited as to what they can do to assist me. Because of my belief that God shall supply my every need I do not have a desire to get on the Welfare or Disability system. I believe that I will be able to return to work fulltime after about six months. I have started taking five minute walks around my apartments. I know that God can and He will turn this situation around for me. If you are not able to do anything more than pray for me and my circumstances then please do.

God bless you and your family.

There are so many things going on, and we need 6K right now.  I am starting a new job while looking for one in my pay range and my husband is working 2 jobs, starting next week.  We will be fine in a month or two, but both of us lost our jobs and had a new baby within 4 months and we have really fallen behind.  Please help!

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Hi my name is Jenna. I currently left my job of 4yrs. I was a manager. I have been finding it difficult to be around other people. I have a wonderful 2yr old little girl. My fiancee has a job. Years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD and Depression. I have been on no medicine since. But here lately I cant help but to be depressed. I have missed out on almost 3yrs of my daughters life do to work. I really need help. I have alot of debt that I cannot get out of. No bank or any thing to help me. We have no other family but ourselves. We just need a chance. We would like to get a loan to get out of everything. We have a car payment, elec, water, gas, insurance (which will over draw me at the bank in the morning) march.17th. I just dont know what to do.I am a month and a half behind in my rent. It shouldve already been paid in full. It is 550.00 a month. I dont have cable. I am getting ready to lose my internet and my phone. shortly. I need some serious help. If I could get a loan for  5  6 thousand. Or even more. I hate to even ask anything. But I have ran out of help or a solution. If  I could get that much it would completetly get us out of everything. Then we could just worry about 1 payment to whomever could help. I will even write it out. sign it. that way i will be believed that we are good people we just cant get a second chance. so please , from one heart to another, please, help my little girl. she is my main concern if it wasnt for her i wouldve been in a heap of trouble. I am only 22 my fiancee is 23. Actually today is our 7 yr anni. (march 16th) my daughter will be 3 in July. so once again please help us. I would do almost anything to prove myself worthy. You can reach me at mis_understood420@yahoo.com or dreadfultears840@yahoo.com . please i need a miracle within 24 hrs. jenna terrell

I am a 38 year old man, who has a household of 4, including myself. Applied for Unemployment, and need some additional money money to come in while waiting for said unemployment to come in. Recently had to leave my job due to facing mental disability, and lost my father, who just died from congestive heart failure and kidney failure back in September of 2007. Trying to keep utilities on, and maintian car note. Am filing EEOC charges against my employer due to discrimination based on not providing accomodations to me for said disability. Am trying to find work, but being in South-Eastern Michigan, it has been truly difficult. Other family memebers are not able to provide any financial support, and financial assistance won't help me. I am seeking $1000.00 or as close to it as possible. Have exhausted income tax refund taking care of bills and utilites last month. Am just hoping and beleiving for a miraclde. Also, need to maintian internet service, since it is vital to my job search. If anyone wants to really help, or can refer me to someone who is able to help out, please e-mail me @ JETGenesis@gmail.com

Thanks for your help!

JET

Hi there. Like so many of you, we have a family and have fallen on the hardest times in our lives. My husband & I have been married for 9 years and have 3 beautiful children ages 7, 4, & 3. I have been receiving disablilty for about 2 1/2 years for multiple conditions that began when I was young. I had bone cancer when I was 15 and have had several surgeries since on my left humerus (which really isn't mine) and in 2002 had the donor bone removed and replaced with titanium prosthesis. We overcame a huge amount of medical bills from this alone to purchase our first home in January of '05 and after 6 months in our new home, things took a terrrible turn. My health became so bad that caring for myself was difficult. I have Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, and am being treated for Lupus though Dr's aren't sure what to make of all the strange test results and bizarre symptoms and fevers. I have suffered with Chronic Fatigue and Major Depression that have been worse than I can ever remember and with little relief from the overwhelming feelings of pain and mental exhaustion I have all but given up. It is so hard to look at my kids because they deserve better. After having so many health problems at once, our health insurance premiums more than doubled each month and the following month my husband's first wife decided after she had a new child with her new husband that she wanted more child support from my husband. Since we live in Wisconsin where the laws have not yet been reformed, our children do not exist in the eyes of the court. Only children from a first marriage count. So her request was granted and even though his ex-wife does not work to provide half the support, she would now get an add'l $650 per month to total $1000 per month and Custody is still joint so we still provide clothing and food for them for the 3-4 days a week that they are here.

Financially, we were devastated and had nothing left to support ourselves. We had no credit cards, no other debt besides our vehicle we purchased used which was only $240 per month. We tried everything to save our home. We had worked so hard to get here to have it taken away like this. We started selling things on eBay. Our kids clothing, toys, our clothing and anything that we could live without that we could make a few dollars on but we didn't have much so eventually that also ran out. We rummage saled for cheap things to sell and kept it going to put food on the table and gas in the tank but that was about it. Now it's barely enough to cover gas at these prices. We had sought advice from an atty who had given us possibly the worst advice we could have received and he took our entire savings including everything we ever had for our kids and we filed Chapter 13 on our house only which ended up costing us dearly and leaving us with nothing except dragging out the inevitable and giving false hope. We have now learned that we are too poor for our house and have to leave it in 3 weeks but are too 'rich' to get any kind of help for food etc from the government since they calculate income BEFORE taxes and could care less that my husband takes home a ridiculous $250 for TWO WEEKS of work as a Corrections Sergeant wih a gross check of over a thousand dollars. After health insurance and child support that is all that is left. Add that to my $700 PER MONTH and it is not enought to survive. Utilities, water, phone, food and we can't imagine where we are going to go in three short weeks. We are going to lose everything that we have. We have no place to go. We can't even get an apartment because we have no money and we can't even afford rent. How is it that we are too rich for help?? I love my husband and my family more than anything and I don't know what I would do without them but God forgive me, I have actually thought of divorcing so we can put a roof over our heads and feed our kids. But I am a Christian and have to believe that God will not fail us. I just don't know what life holds for us and it is so painful to think of right now. If it were just my husband and I we would survive. But our children are innocent and don't deserve this.

I don't envy anyone else and I am in no way trying to sound jealous because I am truly not. I know that what I have in family is worth much more and would not trade it for a million dollars, but only to show a point of fairness I want to say that my husbands ex-wife and new husband have 2 new vehicles (one being a SAAB) and a camper, a home, a pool, and many other luxuries that we don't. We don't ask for luxuries and don't want them. We only ask for what we need to get by. We just want the roof over our heads. My husband pleaded with her and told her how this would affect us (he also provides health insurance for them) and despite the fact that she was not in need of the money, she was 'entitled' to it so she went after it since the law let her. She admitted that she did't use it for the 2 kids but put it into a savings account for college someday. So while we lose everything she doesn't need it for their immediate needs and doesn't work to provide 50% of their care as the law states. It is a gross injustice that needs to be overhauled but no one wants to take it on. So families like us lose everything. And my husband is stil a wonderful father to ALL of his kids.

Anyway, I apologize for the long story, but I felt a great need for you to really get to know us and what we stand for. 

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for taking the time to learn a little about our family and God Bless you in the upcoming holiday season. We will continue to pray for peace and for our miracle. 

~Heidi

Loving Wife & Mother 

Hello,

For over 2 yrs we've been living on 1/4 of our income we were used to.

Husband has stayed employed consistently (knowing we could never live on unemployment anyway) and because of some physical problems I have I worked online ,rented out a bedroom and sold on ebay,anything to make money.

This past six months has been ,for my husband,in a rotten job,low pay,terrible abuse from the boss and tons of hours not to mention driving 60 mi.each way to work.

At 61 my husband felt nobody was hiring him because of his age. He's in excellent shape,works like a 30 yr old and has skills in heavy haul transport developed over many years.The list goes on and on. It made no sense that he was not being hired at a better rate.

Finally we "jumped off the bridge",went online,compared companies and found out who had the best pay and benefits and applied.

Husband leaves tomorrow for Pa. to attend school and has a job when done that pays really well.

Just when he felt there was no hope.

We are christians,we pray,we tithe..we don't ignore God's word. It WORKS..

If you've tried everything else,try God.

If you are already a christian just keep following His Word,apply it to your life and keep the negative thoughts out of your mind..watch God move.

He did it for us,he'll do it for you.

The economy is poor..but GOD'S ECONOMY IS JUST FINE!

I have been waiting for 9 months for social security disability to approve my claim.  Now I find we have to wait up to 12 more months to see an appeals judge.  I had to sell my house to beat foreclosure; the money we have been living off, from that, is gone now.  I don't know how I'm going to pay the rent for the next year.  We don't want to be homeless! I do get food stamps and medical, and child support is regular (thank God).  But it doesn't come close to paying the rent and bills.

My two great kids (one daughter, 16, an honor student and cheerleader, and my creative 8 year-old boy, who does well in school, too) are so vulnerable, and I'm so afraid that they will begin to go in negative directions as a result of homelessness and poverty.  I'm trying not to worry; I know God will take care of us.  But it will be good to have prayer support - and maybe a solution, or miracle, will save us.  Help!!

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please pray for our freind margret she is in the hospital now. she is not doing to great, she has breast cancer and its spread all throughout her body. we just found out she has a brain tumor, and the docter says she only has a few days to live. i would greatly apretiate it if you could pray for her. i am not sure wether or not she has been saved