my first thought, other than that one i just said, was....well maybe someone with only one leg donated them thinking that we might have a neighbor that only has one leg. and what do you know, we DO! his name is Terry and he lives on cohea st. he lost one of his legs years ago in a shoot out. a life full of things you can't even imagine, terry has lived. years in prison. years of drug use. years of drug selling. gangs. violence. you name it, terry has lived it.
the amazing God that we have, terry is learning to walk in freedom from ALL of that. wow, i can't even tell you how jesus is working in this mans heart. it is like revelation, hard to understand and comprehend.
back to the shoe mystery. as we thought of other possible explanations to the bag of only one shoe, in walks chris. chris is terry's cousin, who is also serving jesus now. we ask chris what size shoe terry wears because someone brought a whole bag of really nice shoes, only one and terry might could wear them. um. TERRY donated the bag of shoes! never crossed our simple little minds. what an amazing moment we had over these shoes.
jesus is working through terry in even the smallest of ways. so now we have these shoes. and the mystery was solved. and we are praying and believing a new neighbor with one leg, opposite of terry's, same size, will come here. and when they do, it won't be crazy to us.
here is terry
