How God lighten our path
By Sebastian | School : South Broward High SchoolMy family, in specific my mom is so religious, she is always praying for the whole family and relating everything with God so, when we try to make our first big move to Spain, it dramatically couldn’t be possible because the pandemic just started; after that, my mom just accepted it and went forward; my dad always asked her about why is she so relaxed with that if some months ago she was the most excited in going there; my mom just said ‘ I won’t go against what God is telling me, I always was asking for any signal or green light for us to go there, but instead of a green light, I get a red light, and it was such as big thing as the pandemic, so I just accepted that, Spain is not our goal right now”; my dad was astonished but he didn’t say anything. My mom still wanted to find a better future for the four of us (Dad, Mom, Sister and me) so she started the VISA process to come here to USA, but she always trusted in God to light her path and inspired by the American Dream, she paid $800 to make the appointments for the whole family; the appointments were for 2024 (we were in 2020) and one day in September 2021 my mom and I were talking about that, and she said “well we are now on our path to USA, so let’s do this in name of God and the Virgin Mary” and 5 minutes later she got a call from the VISA office, the call was something like “Hey Good Afternoon, is this Sandra?” My mom said yes and the person on the phone said, “Hey Sandra I’m from the VISA office, I just wanted to tell you that your appointments were re-scheduled to March, 14 2022” My mom was completely surprised and asked why? “The person said, there was some moves of appointments because many people is not coming, so we are moving and because of you were so kind with me when you made the appointment, so I prioritize you and move your appointment more than 1 year and a half” My mom was so happy and after some talking on the phone she hang up and told me what happened. We were so happy, and my mom cried and instantly went to the Virgin Mary statue that we had at home and prayed the whole rosary; it was a miracle so. When the whole family got the good news (including my grandparents) we all prayed for this absolute green light and our path started in name of God. In 2023, a month before coming here, my parents got married after 23 years of free union and two kids, it was perfect and my mom felt fully completed before the moving, but there was a lot of things to solve before coming here yet but my mom with the strongest hope and devotion to God never stop praying and asking for everything to go perfect, my sister was staying in Colombia until she gets her degree at the university. My mom was so worried about where is she staying at and if it was another God miracle, one aunt was completely able to give her a room in her house, this aunt was so kind and friendly, my sister and my mom were so thankful to her and finally we could go to our flight relaxed. It was a normal flight and we were received by my mom’s cousin, but this is not the end of the miracles; after my cousin didn’t wanted to bring my dad to his job, another cousin appeared and got my dad a job 2 days after we came here; it was not easy for my dad because it was on construction, in Florida, temperatures can reach 110 degrees and we arrived here on May so it was getting hotter and hotter, but my dad accepted the challenge and he stayed there 6 months, and instead of his health getting worse, he even got more comfortable and his knee problem was dramatically reduced. After my mom got her job and we got a really good apartment where to stay by ourselves, we are now in a perfect economic shape, and we are making our dream now here and in name of God and the Virgin Mary we are now going forward.
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