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In 2016, I got the news that I needed to get my bottom row of teeth removed. I was devastated. I told my mentor what happened at the dentist. She came alongside me and set up a GoFundMe. I was blessed with so many donations. I had my surgery in December. The pain was unbelievable. Thankfully,I was supported by my friends and family.
When I went to get a checkup and implants, I was informed that the price had increased. I felt helpless and stuck in a denture. I promised God that anything I needed to do to complete this process I would do.
A year later, I got a call to interview with WTOC. The anchor was looking through GoFundMe and wanted to interview me. I did the interview, hoping enough donations would come so that I could finish the process. After the interview aired, a friend from church called, saying her dentist friend wanted to help me. I met with him, and he shared that he would complete the work with the amount I had, or he would give me $10,000 to complete it with my original dentist. I decided to go with him.
It took another year to finish. In 2019, my dental work was completed. There were lots of tears and fears, but the Lord stood with me.
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Almost 3 weeks ago I had returned from my future sister-in-law‘s bachelorette party. It was Labor Day 2023 to be specific. Exhausted from the travels and fun of a long weekend. I crawled into my cozy bed nestled back in my farm apartment in Harwood, MD (sidenote: I rented a families basement apartment on their farm! It’s dreamy with horses and magical views of the evening stars!)
My friend sent me a voice message, and I listened to it before closing my eyes. It was a voice message of her praying over me. She was praying over my future husband and I uniting, and before she finished the prayer, she asked God to surprise me. I’m still waiting on my husband, but the Lord had a more sudden surprise up his sleeve. The next morning, I started work and received a voice message (a common theme in my life) from a life mentor of mine. She told me she felt led to offer me the last scholarship spot at her writers conference in St. Louis ($600 value). The conference itself was covered; however flight and room/board were not. Considering the conference was about 2 1/2 weeks out, all seemed very unrealistic. After all, I’ve been deliberately working the past few months to stick to a strict budget and get out of debt.
I was thrilled and honored to receive the offer, but I also knew money didn’t fall out of the sky. So I did all I could do and left the rest up to the man upstairs. This consisted of prayer, fasting, and asking others to pray. About a week later, I told my mentor it wasn’t going to work. Two hours after I told her no, God told me no to my no. One of my friends, whom I had asked to pray with me, reached out and said she was willing and able to give me $600. I almost fell over. She was funding over 80% of my projected expenses for the trip. I knew that was my cue to go. I moved some things around in my budget to cover the rest of the trip, and here I sit writing the story at the writers conference in St. Louis.
Isaiah 6:8 “Here I am Lord send me”
Kristen Wiblishouser
