When it rains, it pours.

I’ve never understood that sentence more than I have since moving to Tennessee.

In May, my family moved from Arizona all the way to East Tennessee. We had a beautiful home. Everything was going great for the first four or five months. Then hurricane Helene hit and destroyed the beautiful homes and all of the things that we had left from Arizona. It made our house since uninhabitable. The county would not run new power lines to our buildings. The city cut off the water supply and we were left to fend for ourselves with nothing. no family, no house, no money and then no place to live. So fast-forward past all that, thanks to the generosity of everybody here on this site and the churches and all the wonderful people that helped us after this devastating natural disaster we were able to find a home that me and my wife rented on our own, we both we’re still working and everything is going so so we’re making it… until today. 

Five days before Christmas, 20 December 2024, my boss fires me. For no reason. 

We just didn’t get along. He didn’t like me from the very beginning and even though he was one of the first people that came to my aid when my houses were flooded and helped me shovel the Mud out of my living room, we still didn’t really get along. That is primarily because I know what is an isn’t acceptable in a work environment. And I won’t ever sacrifice my dignity or self-respect for a paycheck.

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I have owned my own company. I’ve ran my own shop fixing cars in 2014 and that too was ripped away from me because of other people‘s mistakes and stuff that was not under my control.

But that’s a story for another day…

The reason I’m making this is because right now five days before Christmas and two days before we get our holiday bonus where I work, which is getting five days off three of them paid days off after Christmas. I get fired for no reason because we don’t get along.

The whole purpose for this campaign is just to get a little bit of help until I can get back on my feet and have a job because right now I have only enough in the bank to cover my rent at the first of the year January‘s rent is due on the first…. I can pay my rent. I have that saved for this one month. When I’m hoping to find a little bit of assistance for my power bill, which is around $250 this month because of the heating that we’ve had to use We are in  East Tennessee and currently the temperature is in the mid 20s. If I’m not mistaking it’s about 25° right now. It snows, it rains, and it’s cold and coming from Arizona where it’s 120 and I’ve never seen snow my entire life. This is a big change. I just hope that there’s someone that would be generous enough to donate till I can get a job again.. cause I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be kinda hard for me to find a job. The guy that just fired me has a real large presence in this town. Wife is in government and city council stuff like that the head or the dean of something like commission of deeds or something. so she’s well known he’s well known and I’m really worried that he’s gonna make some calls and I’m not gonna be able to find work in this town anymore. He’s gonna blacklist me and people won’t hire me. Because he tells them not to or tells them something that isn’t true that’s gonna scare them.. 

Before I finish this, I just wanna give thanks to God and  Jesus Christ. Because without them looking after me and helping me, I would be just dust in the wind. I understand now that what happened to me before with the hurricane and the flood and the mud and all that I see what everything is now it was God telling me “wake up!”

he’s trying to show me. I sorta understood it, but I wasn’t sure completely of what it was. I didn’t all the way believe that that was what it was supposed to mean. he was pushing me to the church. He was telling me go to church cause every single bit of help that I got after that hurricane hit Was from church people and churches and ministries and congregations. He was telling me that’s the way to go and I wasn’t believing it. I wasn’t sure but I know now that it is the way because of this I was able to get on my feet just enough again, now five days before Christmas. I’m in the same position. where I might be homeless I might not have food and I might have to live in my car.

Day after tomorrow, I will be going to church services and will also be attending the Christmas service and if I like where I’m going, I’ll continue going there if it doesn’t feel right I will keep looking until I find the one that feels right but the one thing I do know is church and God is the right path and it’s the path I need to be on sooner than later.

Thank you everyone in advance for all your generosity. I wish everybody a safe, happy, healthy Christmas and a happy healthy amazing start to a new year.(after the year we just had I don’t think it’s possible for 2025 to be any worse. This year pretty much hit Rock Bottom. It can only go up from here. so thinking positively 😅🫣