The Miracle of the Mattresses

We ran into a few obstacles for our second project.  The first being a lack of mattresses.  These are extremely hard to come by, but also the greatest need!  We had a twin sized mattress for "Shelby's" little boy but still needed a full or queen sized mattress for "Shelby".  The drop was scheduled for Friday, and on Wednesday we were still without any leads.
Wednesday night we received a message that a friend of a friend had a mattress that she was excited to donate to House of Light, but that we would need to drive to Castle Rock to get it.  We rallied the troops and figured out who was going.  This was finalized Thursday morning.

Throughout the morning we realized that we were not going to be able to pick up the mattress until Friday evening or Saturday - after the drop had occurred.  PANIC set in!

This is when God intervened in a mighty and powerful way!

It was then discovered that the woman who was donating the mattress was the cousin of one of House of Light's Council members, Rachel.  She was willing to give us the code to her garage so we could pick up the mattress on Thursday afternoon!

Rachel and Lisa headed out to pick up the mattress and with the help of the kind young man who happened to notice us in front of his house, got the mattress and box spring on top of the car.  It was "loosely" strapped to the hood of the car (since Lisa's lesson with ratcheting straps didn't transfer to actual application).  A prayer was said and we made our way back to the interstate with Rachel leaning low keeping an eye on the treasures through the rear view mirror!

I forgot to take a picture, but this what we imagined the scene resembled!

Needless to say, we weren't laughing like some of the other Council members when Brandy received word that "Shelby" and her son had been given mattresses already...

We are extremely thankful for the generosity of Rachel's cousin, and the divine (and humorous) way the Lord blessed House of Light!