[il-talk] oct. 13,part2

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Good morning, Joe,

Thank you for sharing your memories and your thoughts.  Whatever our 
religious beliefs, I think most of us have found that our gifts have a way 
of coming back to us.

Debbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JOSEPH MONTI" <jlmonti at sbcglobal.net>
To: <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:32 PM
Subject: [il-talk] oct. 13,part2


amy had been hospitalized 35 times up to this time and she was 4 and a 
half.many bioopsies were performed and she was seen by many doctors at 
childrens and they could not find out what was wrong with her. so here we 
finallly had a diagnosis.
3 days later amy was moved from ICU toa regular room. and on saturday i took 
her home.mary was still in the hospital(18days in all). so Sunday morning i 
got up got my 3 kids ready to go to church and sat down to write my weekly 
pledge. i stopped. i could not put down the old weekly amount. i finally 
wrote a check for double the amount. i felt a ittle better. when mary came 
home she was upset when i told her what i did. we had a pretty strict 
budget. but decided to try it. mary dropped out of school, stayed home to 
care for amy, and got a job as anurse's aide in the evenings. i got my 
Master's degree and surprisinglyl big raise. we never looked back.we seemed 
to have enough money to do what we wanted. as you know amy did die 33 years 
later. but we thanked God for those 3 years. she was such a special,funny 
kid.
stewardship involves more then money. it heralds the use of tallents, and 
work. my pledge grew each year and surprisingly was one of the highest in 
our oak park church. i have been retired for 10 years and our pledge has 
gone down a small amount at our medical bills went up.i know the bible is 
correct when it says your gift will come back many fold. amen.
joe monti
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