June 12, 2015
Day 157
Hey! Everybody!
What an honor to welcome Brittany Mountz to my blogsite. This will be the most interactive post you will have read to date. Why? Because after you read this you will have the opportunity to make a big difference for this family. Brittany is a blogger herself and I would encourage you to visit her site called Fifty-Two. You will definitely enjoy her take on life. Now, if only her mother would create a site for us to enjoy her photography! But I digress.
After you read this please go to Vote For Mountz's Roof. When I last checked they are at 37% which is a close second. Let's get this to 100%. Let's flood social media! You can go to the site: Vote For Mountz's Roof and post it on your facebook page or post this blogpost.
You will enjoy reading the following from Brittany. In advance, thanks for your interaction. God's got them covered and He is allowing us to be part of His endeavors.
Did I mention Vote For Mountz's Roof ?
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Hello! Thanks for welcoming a new
voice on Lynne’s blog. I’m honored to be one of her 365 posts and I appreciate
you taking the time to read my words.
I’ll be up-front with you all: I’m
writing with an agenda. We need votes in order for our home to win a new roof
and I’m going to be asking for yours. We’re one of four finalists in Berks
County to win a free new roof installed by Mast
Roofing and Construction. Three weeks of voting will determine the winner.
We bought our home in 2012 and it
was clear from the first time we set foot inside that owing it would be a dream
come true. It’s exactly what we love: historic, full of slanted floors and high
ceilings and behemoth radiators and tons of charm. But lest you think it’s
purely dreamy, let me assure you that we’ve had our share of nightmares.
Flooded basement, bats in bedrooms, scraping old paint from the gingerbread
front porch, fallen gutters, and a leaking roof. We’ve been overwhelmingly
blessed with solutions for most of these issues and have been given so much
help in upkeeping our precious dinosaur of a home. But the need for a new roof
is one we don’t think we can manage alone. We don't know exactly what ours
would cost to replace, but with two main roof sections (one of which is veeeery
high) and two porches, we know it would be pretty steep. No pun intended.
If our house were smaller - and
closer to the ground - we would re-shingle it ourselves with friends as
volunteer labor. We tried to get some insurance money for hail damage, but were
told that most of the damage up there is not from hail. It's just an old,
tired, weather-beaten, dying roof.
For months now, I’ve been called
back again and again to the passage in Mark 5 about Jesus raising the dead
little girl. While Jesus is on his way to heal her from an illness, the
messengers bring word that she has died. They tell the grieving father, “Don’t
bother Jesus anymore. It’s all over now.” But Christ ignores the naysayers. I
picture him cupping the dad’s crying face in his hands, forcing him to meet His
eyes. "Don’t be afraid. Just believe," He says. In the absence of an
easy solution, He promises something better. He essentially says "What
looks like death to you is really just a chance to show off my power." And
He rolls up His sleeves and you know a big miracle is coming. So we've put the
crushing burden of our dying roof into God's hands and asked Him for a miracle.
Maybe this contest is our miracle.
Maybe it's not. If we're not the winning house on June 21st, then we know
there's another answer to this desperate need.
But as we pray for an answer - any
answer - I ask you to vote. You can cast one vote per email address at
tinyurl.com/ourfreeroof. And if you're willing, please share this post, or the
voting link, with your friends and family members and communities and ask them
to vote.
And when your hope is lost
and you're about to quit, listen closely and you'll hear Him tell you
the same thing: "Why are you discouraged? Why are you giving up? Don’t be
afraid. It's not over. It's all just about to begin. Just believe."
Written by: Brittany Mountz
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