Monday, September 26, 2016

Joseph showed up for work an hour early this evening.  He and Papa Jim went right to work knocking apart an old shed of ours.  He's going to take the good boards home and have it remade into a useful storage building.  His wife will use it in her business.  A couple of years ago we helped her get started in a small business.  She's had set-backs and ups and downs, but the business is still going.  She rents roadside space near a school.  Each day she spreads out her merchandise on a small, wooden table, and sells to school children and anyone else that comes along.  In addition to selling phone credit, she sells things like little packets of water, cookies, candies, etc.  Her soon-to-be newly rebuilt shed will be an enormous blessing for her.  Up to now she has had to hall all her merchandise back and forth each day.  But before long she will be able to lock things up inside.  Her life will suddenly become a lot easier.  And Papa Jim is glad to get rid of a tumbling down own shed that is no longer useful for him.  How's that saying?  One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

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