The Truck!

The great news of late is, of course, the retreat center's new truck! An email was sent out to Tallgrass supporters on a Friday that there was a need for a truck and by Monday the center received the donation of a 2000 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab truck with only 62,000 miles on it! Four days! It took only four days! It was really exciting around here that weekend. That email prayer request generated more email responses than anything I've ever sent out. Women were praying for the center to get a new truck. Women were sending the email on to farmer friends in hopes they might know of a truck. A friend in WI said if she had a truck she would drive it to my front door and hand me the keys. She didn't have a truck though! My daughter's farmer father-in-law looked all around SW Kansas for a truck. Women were including this request in Sunday morning's "Prayers of the People" in church or making sure it got in the church bulletin or newsletter.

I picked up the truck on Tuesday morning in Manhattan. Well, I kind of picked it up. I rode with the donor, but had forgotten my driver's license, so I was unable to legally drive it home! As soon as I was home alone with it, I took it for a peaceful drive out on the prairie. It was wonderful!

Even more wonderful have been the responses since I sent the follow-up email, telling folks about the truck. Emails have poured in, praising God, offering congratulations, and oohing and aahing over pictures of the truck. :-) It's like the center's acquisition of this truck is a reminder to folks that God is still present in prayers. So . . . now I'm asking for prayers for a plumber!

Blessings, Billie