I guess when it’s 3:09 am and I’m told to start writing…..I’d better start writing.

I once posted a testimonial in another forum that I frequent daily. It was right after finding my current house, and I wanted everyone to know that this manifesting stuff REALLY did work!

Now that I find myself in a new situation, I suppose I have a new testimonial to share.

My boyfriend and I have spent the last five years intertwining our debt so we could rebuild my credit and actually establish some for him. I offered to be on an auto loan for him and added him to my credit card account and off we went.

Sure, in these times, that kind of financial commitment is pretty daring, but I had no reason to feel a concern for it. I loved him, so why would I not do everything I could for him?

When I finally, after the events described in my previous article, came up with the idea that I was going to keep my house, I didn’t give it any more thought when I called the mortgage lender we dealt with this past summer. She expressed sorrow for me having to so quickly refinance a new mortgage, but offered to help me in any way she could. I filled out the online application and waited to find out if this was even an option.

Of course his truck loan was a big no-no and I needed to be removed from it, but otherwise, I’m approved! Not dwelling to much on where I would find the funds for a one-person mortgage, once again I mentally collected all of my financial needs and submitted them energetically for approval.

So far he has successfully refinanced the truck, removing me from the obligation. My beautiful loan officer has been able to lower my interest rate as well as drop my monthly payment by almost $100.

I’ve almost got the “OK” to begin working about four hours of overtime every other week and the additional living space I have downstairs seems it will eventually be rented by a life-long friend in need of some recovery time.

At this point, I wanted to share a parable that I ran across the other day that is very relevant to me in this moment:

A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old donkey. The donkey fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the donkey braying, or whatever donkeys do when they fall into wells.

After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the donkey, but decided that neither the donkey nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.

Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened, and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old donkey in the well and put him out of his misery.

Initially, the old donkey was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back, a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back, he should shake it off and step up! This he did, blow after blow.

“Shake it off and step up, shake it off and step up, shake it off and step up!” he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old donkey fought panic and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up!

You’re right! It wasn’t long before the old donkey, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the wall of that well! What seemed like something that would bury him, actually blessed him, all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.

So, I keep taking the blows and shaking it off, only to find the top of the well is now at eye level.