Sunday, June 22, 2014

We are finally legal!!

     Learning Perseverance and Patience has been a journey!!  Never Let Go Ministries has now obtained our 501C3 non-profit status!!
     Last Thursday, June 12, '14, I had called the IRS to check on our application that we had turned in to file for becoming a 501C3 non-profit organization.  I had checked the website and found out they were still working on last August's applications!  I was rather disappointed in thinking that we would have still yet a long wait.  I spoke with a man who said that you just have to wait your turn.  Then when I went out to get the mail, I saw an envelope from the IRS, and automatically thought maybe we were getting it back unapproved for some reason, but as I opened it and started to read it, I realized it was the letter to say that were now an official operating non-profit.  I cried like a baby.
     Later that night as I was sitting on our couch trying to comprehend what this was going to mean for us, I became so emotional realizing what my son's death has lead to.  God has used the most tragic and sorrowful time in my entire life, and was using it to make good.  I wrote in my journal that evening:
     "After a long and tiring journey, filled with sorrow, tears, heartache and uncertainty, I see the light that is coming from my son's death, and although I still miss him more than I can EVER find words for, I feel in my heart as though he has just been reborn.  His memory will live on forever, and he and Christ together up there, are going to save lives here, and even more importantly, SOULS!  Tears fall rapidly as I can picture him in Heaven saying "Go Mom go!"  I love you Marjoe, and I love You my Lord and Savior!  Thank you!"
     I don;t know what the Lord has planned now for this ministry, and I will admit I am scared, but I do know I have learned a lot since my son's death four years ago, and I now know that I will trust the Lord to use everything I have learned to give Him glory for the beauty that will come from the darkness.
     My words today are to tell each one of you to never give up!!!!  Continue to pray, persevere, hope and don;t ever think that you can't do something, because as long as you have God at your side, He can make it happen.  Another door of this journey closes, as another one opens..................................Dear Lord, guide us where You need us!!!!!!!!!!