Her husband keeps receiving a prompting to quit his job. He resigns and he is jobless. They pray and feel like God has something in mind and to just wait. But months pass. Then they purchase a garage door company. The woman selling it tells how her husband had cancer and they prayed it would progress slowly and give them one more month, one more week, one more day--and Emily realizes God was trying to balance both families' needs. They know it is right to buy the business. But the job never really works out. They get into debt. It nearly destroys them financially. Why would God want them to own a business that would destroy them financially? But in the four years that Greg owns the business, he is able to serve diligently and devotedly in the church. And in that time, Garrett gets out of jail and comes to live with them and he goes daily with Greg to fix garage doors for 18 months and it saved his life. Emily writes "To God, the cost of that boy's life was far greater than the debt we incurred. I get it. But it doesn't make the questioning go away. I don't understand why it seems that God's answer cost us so dearly. ... I long for the understanding of that."
Lessons Learned:
D&C 18:10 The worth of a soul is great in the sight of God.
Sometimes we don't fully understand God's plan or why things happen the way they do!
It's okay to have questions.
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