DALANEL
The Daily Positive: Man Shovels Nearly 20 Driveways for Free
A young man decided to spend his time shoveling snow for people. He posted on Facebook that he was available to help. In the end, he helped clear out nearly 20 driveways among other things. He did this for free. Very nice of him.
Wednesday Word: It’s Not Always Easy
The Daily Positive: Teen Raises Money to Buy Man A Car
Let me first start by saying that the news is awesome that the teen got the money and all of that. But, when you find out why this man needed a new car, you might just lose your mind…and be a little more thankful…
Robertson, 56, begins his day at 8am and doesn’t get home until 4am, after travelling most of his journey to and from work on foot. The factory worker can’t afford a new car on his $10.55 an hour salary, and has been making the massive trek every day for 10 years to keep a perfect attendance record.
Holy crap. He comes home, sleeps for a couple of hours, and does it all over again. Holy crap.
So, Evan Leedy decided to do something about it.
The student’s original goal was to crowdfund $5,000 for bus fare, but it quickly reached enough to purchase a vehicle. I initially set the goal for $5,000 just to get him something, bus fares and taxi rides,” Leedy said. “I went to go get ready and an hour later we had $2,000 donated already. Within four hours we had over $10,000. I bumped it up again and by the end of the day we had over $30,000.”
Soon after, car dealerships offered to give the man a free car. It’s a great story, but I love the quote from Robertson’s boss:
“I set our attendance standard by this man,” Todd Wilson, Robertson’s manager, told The Detroit Free Press. “I say, if this man can get here, walking all those miles through snow and rain, well I’ll tell you, I have people in Pontiac 10 minutes away and they say they can’t get here – bull!”
Welp!
There’s a fantastic image in the story of Robertson’s daily commute. Take a look at it. Thank God for public transportation!
Tuesday Testimony: New Home and New Job
I do not belong to any ministry or run any prayer tower, I am a working woman born and brought up in Christian Family.
(1) Last Year 2014 had been very blessed for us as we could purchase a new house it is a blessing from GOD as our monthly income is enough to run the months expenses so we cannot effort to buy a house, but by GOD’s GRACE we are able to purchase our own house and since last year we have been staying peacefully and blessed always in this home.
(2) The Company’s Management where I work presently had forcefully asked to resigned the permanent staff. I was totally prepared to accept the resign as I knew my boss for whom I as EA had resigned two months back and had left the company so I was EA without the boss.
But see the people who were senior to me and had been spending many years more than 28 years in this company had asked to resign from the job and I was asked/chosen to fill their vacancy. It was a great surprise for me as I have completed only 4 years in this company and that too I am very new to all this work.
Presently I am serving two bosses (1st half and 2nd half).
Now again I am ready to accept the decision/plan of Jesus in my life.
Please pray for me that I may grow spiritually in life along with my whole family.
Praise GOD FOREVER AND EVER.
AMEN.
Testimony from 2 Praise God
The Daily Positive: Man Survives Getting Ran Over By Farming Equipment
This piece of news is somewhat gruesome and painful, but it’s worth a read! Our friend, Vander, was doing his usual farm work when:
After tripping over a corn stalk hidden beneath the snow, Vander Zwaag fell backward into a running power take-off, or PTO. The device, which sends power from a tractor into an attached piece of farming equipment, took hold of the farmer’s clothing and pulled him through the mechanism.
The force of spinning gears and rotating parts crushed and bruised much of the left side of Vander Zwaag’s body, before finally spitting him out onto a loosely-packed bed of snow. Having worn multiple layers of clothing in preparation for working in the cold, Vander Zwaag said his apparel wrapped around the PTO’s gears, finally stopping the machine from doing further damage.
Christ. Turns out he was on the ground nude. He couldn’t call for help if only because his cell phone was all messed up. His only chance was to get to his tractor. Here’s the damage:
Dealing with a concussion, a total of eight fractured ribs and vertebrae, a displaced hip, a broken femur, a ruptured spleen and a completely crushed left ankle, he reached out for the step he needed to climb to mount his tractor. Despite a nearly 2-foot gap from the ground, he eventually found himself at the tractor’s helm.
With all of that, he managed to find help. In the end, he seems to be pretty normal.
While he picked up the habit of using his right foot to operate the clutch, nearly everything else has returned to normal. With the help of his family, his faith and his community, Timothy Vander Zwaag only has one word to describe the last year’s series of events: a miracle.
The whole story is quite a read. I swear I didn’t do this on purpose but the quote at the top really goes with this story. Ha!
