New Beginning for Hope's Family
Donation protected
Today my parked car was side swiped. The police told me they found the UHaul that hit me. When I arrived to meet the driver, there was a woman with five children waiting by the truck. She said she looked for me but couldn't wait, because she had to get her oldest from school. Both the cop and I believed her she seemed shaken and most of all overwhelmed. When I asked her why she was moving so close to Christmas, she smiled very sweetly and said, "We got evicted, and I am staying at my mom's. I have a week to find a place to go".
I spent the next two hours helping her unload her truck into two storage units and during that time I heard her story. Everything from abuse to just plain bad luck. There were moments when she would tear up looking at her whole life shoved into a storage unit. She just took a breath and said, "God has a plan for me. I know he does. It's just hard to see what that is."
I know that God put us together today for two reasons:
1. For me, it was to remember that I can't sweat the small stuff. There are people out there really going through some shit.
2. So I could be of some help.
The mother has a PFA (Protection From Abuse order) against her child's father, so we have given her the alias, "Hope".
I spent the next two hours helping her unload her truck into two storage units and during that time I heard her story. Everything from abuse to just plain bad luck. There were moments when she would tear up looking at her whole life shoved into a storage unit. She just took a breath and said, "God has a plan for me. I know he does. It's just hard to see what that is."
I know that God put us together today for two reasons:
1. For me, it was to remember that I can't sweat the small stuff. There are people out there really going through some shit.
2. So I could be of some help.
The mother has a PFA (Protection From Abuse order) against her child's father, so we have given her the alias, "Hope".
Hope. It’s a gift that will impact the life of a single mother and the lives of her five children. YRK and Think Loud Development are challenging you, members of the York, Pennsylvania, community, to give hope and a new beginning to a special family in need. We know the power of the York community to create, innovate and impact the future. This holiday season, reach into your heart and give generously to give a York family a gift that will impact their lives forever: hope.
"We can't always see where the road leads but god promises there's something better up ahead we just have to trust him" ~Psalm 56:3
"We can't always see where the road leads but god promises there's something better up ahead we just have to trust him" ~Psalm 56:3
Organizer
Jackie Dahlheimer
Organizer
York, PA