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Be the Rope

8/3/2017

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Off the Cliff
The ground gave way underneath her and the phone fell from her hand. Caroline couldn’t believe what she was hearing. He’d lost his job?! The company simply closed its doors with no warning?! She had been out of work long enough that everything was already stretched to the limit. Outstanding medical bills and repairs to their beater of a car, and they had already driven every cent out of their bank account. They were so behind on the mortgage…this just could not be happening.  
 
Love Has a Rope
Her doorbell rang. Stacy didn’t wait for a response but walked on in. “I just heard,” Stacy said. “I’m so sorry, Caroline. This is unreal.” She sat down on the floor beside Caroline and held her. “I’m here, and I’m with you through all of this. You are not alone.”
 
Love Throws a Rope
Stacy had lost everything through a divorce some years ago. She vividly remembered the day she packed her two kids, and everything she could, into her car and headed to the women’s shelter. She, herself, wasn’t in the clear yet but was definitely back on solid ground. She knew the potential uphill climb Caroline and her husband were facing and vowed she would be there in any way she was able.
 
Stacy hadn’t known Caroline back then. Others had buoyed her, encouraging her and providing what she could not for her kids. “I don’t have any financial answers, but I do have life experience and hope. I can help navigate some of the rockier parts of this mountain. I don’t have much to offer, but what I do have is yours,” she said.
 
Love IS the Rope
Caroline pulled back from Stacy’s embrace. A strange peace seeped into her heart. “I don’t know how that helps so much, but it does,” Caroline said.
 
Stacy stayed with her that night until her husband made it home. She put a few frozen pizzas in their freezer for when they needed them. She helped make phone calls to creditors.  She looked for what was needed and provided what she could. Stacy rallied others just as others had done for her.
 
Accepting the charity of friends and strangers was unfamiliar to Caroline. She was always the one to put money in the offering plate, not the one who needed to take it out. But she recognized that when you are falling, and someone offers, you only have to stretch out your hand and grab the rope.
 
Love always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:7 

#bethelove #betherope #loveinaction

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Lisa Lyon
8/4/2017 08:25:03 am

I was moved to tears, not the sad kind but the kind where you stop and think, "Am I the rope when someone needs a friend to lend a listening ear and a shoulder to cry on!"
Love this message!!!

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Ruth
8/7/2017 09:50:57 am

Like Lisa I hope there times I can be someone's rope. I certainly have been blessed many times by someone being a rope for me. God put the right words in your heart to share today.

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Sherry Fisher
8/9/2017 10:24:36 am

Beautiful story - we are hear to give and receive hope, faith and love

Give us wisdom to know when to reach out and when to recieve

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