Tompind
Disciple of Prayer
I cared so much about my neighbors family, I would've given my dumb old life, to see their much more important young family make it. Met them just after a rapid succession of friends dying from shooting dope, the same thing they were doing, and seeing one of the first dead bodies ever, after which I felt such a weight of all the misery, agony, desperation & death of all the families, parents, children and loved ones affected by this epidemic, I spent a month at least every morning before any service or people were there, at the church, lighting prayer candles, dropping prayers in the box, kneeling at the altar begging, very often crying for God to please help us down here with this. Then i met this young mom in early recovery, from right here in little Lionville just one minute away, full of fear, worry, anxiety, life in ruins, would she ever see her kids again, lose her house, what would she do when she loses her license,...ect. I was scared she would die like everybody else, maybe even before the next meeting like happened so often. Hey remember that one yesterday, dead, dead, dead, another one gone. At this point I told myself I'm not gonna let this one die, no matter what, not this young mom from right down the street, who it seemed almost by providence I came across right at this time, where I'm able & available 24/7 to do anything I can to help. Man it was just miraculously amazing the total complete recovery of this family I stuck with them through every step of the way. Getting the kids back, little Mike & Aubree who loved me so much, and just all the progress, growth, doing everything together, most every day, sometimes all day. Eating, meetings, fixing the house and planting flowers in the yard, and giving every penny i had saved, thousands of dollars for anything to help relieve their financial stress, enable them to make the payments to keep the house, and keep out of jail, and just focus on staying clean & alive. It would've made a perfect beautiful inspirational recovery book, or movie of hope & people together caring and giving anything to help lift their neighbor, joy and fulfillment, gratitude like almost nothing else can give. All the way up to hearing them proclaim this is the best it's ever been, her admantly exclaiming this peace like she's never known before, so good it was worth all they'd been through even in the last probably very nearly fatal relapse to get to this place, better than ever before in their life. What an incredible joy to be part it, through it all, every step, day by day together from wreckage & ruins, fear & anxiety, to the greatest peace ever. And then some very very strange things and sudden cold rejection after spending everything i had thousands of dollars months of my life and all my effort and heart and soul, as if that's not enough, police at my door, threatening me from their malicious lies. And even as if that doesn't just take your last breath out of you, even when you comply with polices unmeritted restrictions, more lies, more attacks, entire police force yelling in your face, threatening you, unknowingly lied & manipulated into service against me, like I'm the criminal. The worst piece of crap that the ones I sacrificed everything for, and stuck by through the most miraculous complete recovery of their family that anyone could ever wish for, now suddenly need police to save them from. I don't know, nowhere in any furthest stretch could I even conceive it could even be real. But, from the beginning I was willing and ready to sacrifice anything to see this young family stay clean, survive, and make it, even my dumb old life for their much more important young family if I would've had to, which I think might've been better than this. So no matter what happens to me, I hope they'll always be well, and I thank God for keeping them so far. Bob S. 484-252-9596 715 Taylor rd, Downingtown,PA 19335
