The Story of a Stove

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NoSmoke
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Post by NoSmoke » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 6:09 am

Last fall we needed a new stove and a local paper advertised a pot bellied stove for sale not far away, and so Katie and I went to retrieve it, never knowing what sort of story that stove would have. Not of the stove itself, though as a Woods and Bishop Pot Bellied Stove, it was an antique. No, the story is rather about the people who owed it.

As we talked things over, it became apparent that the owners of the stove we Christians as well, and soon they handed back the $100 bill I had given them for the stove. In fact I left with a lot more, as retired house movers, and a love of farmers, we got tons of odds and ends for moving buildings that the man no longer needed.

But as the pot bellied stove warmed our house last winter, cancer took its toll on me, along with my inability to work, then a logger stole $11,000 in timber theft, Katie and I lost an unborn child, and we were forced to sell our flock of sheep to pay our property taxes. Having become friends on Facebook though, the owners of the stove kept sending us cards, and yes with money in it...$500 for Thanksgiving, $400 for Christmas, and money throughout the year in small allotments.

But the best part came ironically after a good friend of mine had died. He had given me the gospel, and at age thirteen I accepted it, but at the man's funeral was the people who had owned the stove, but why? How did they know him? Apparently before getting into house moving, the stove owner had been a truckdriver, and in the cab of a truck, teaching my friend to drive for a particular company, had given him the gospel. The owner of the stove had led the man to Jesus, whom in turn, lead me to Jesus years later!

As the dancing blue ladies waltz and foxtrot in that stove now, more then my fanny is warmed, but also my heart. It will NEVER be just a stove for me, for I might have to shovel coal on this side of the sod, but I know I will never shovel coal into a lake of fire.
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Post by freetown fred » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 6:59 am

Nice NS--------------:)

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 8:12 am

freetown fred wrote:
Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 6:59 am
Nice NS--------------:)
+1.

It's amazing the paths with coincidences that life can sometimes take us on.

Paul


 
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Post by franco b » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 8:44 am

And that's the rest of the story. Well done.

 
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Post by KingCoal » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 11:34 am

there is no way the mortal mind can even begin to concieve a story that outshines the intentional, unstoppable goodness of Abba God. what a testamony !!

happy for you. keep your soul in the fire, HE will pluck you out when all the junk is burned off but you, are yet unconsumed. that is the glorious day we all await together.

steve

 
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Post by coalfan » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 2:10 pm

very nice !!!!


 
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Post by CoalJockey » Mon. Oct. 01, 2018 8:52 pm

Awesome testimony... nothing will ever quench the Spirit’s fire in that stove!

 
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Post by Vonda » Wed. Nov. 21, 2018 3:02 pm

WOW! This made me wonder, "Have I lead anyone to Christ?"

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Wed. Nov. 21, 2018 8:09 pm

You never know the consequences of the good you do...
while doing them...
But the reward comes back to you when you were least expecting it some times...
The impact you make may seem trivial to you at the time...
But the good things compound over time...

 
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Post by coalfan » Thu. Nov. 22, 2018 8:19 am

well put cc !

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