Rivers in the Desert

"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, don't you see it? 

 I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."  Isaiah 43:19

Two years ago this November 24, I bought the upper half of the LI property.  Almost immediately after, my 2 neighbors on the right built a fence to block my driveway; I have spent every day since trying to figure out how to regain access to it.  The most recent fiasco is that my lawyer deserted me.  She refuses to answer my calls, texts, or emails, and has moved her office so I can't even confront her face to face. Rogelio thinks that the neighbors have threatened her and forced her to back off; that's just how things normally work here--through bribes and threats. Since I will do neither, we are at an impasse. There is nothing left for us to do but pray and keep preparing the land in faith, trusting the Lord to fix it in His own time.  AND HE HAS!

Checha is willing to tear down the wall up at the top and build up the area on

the right with block and cement to make this wide enough to drive on.  

My 2 neighbors are still as determined as ever to keep me off my property, BUT the neighbor on the other side, Checha, has decided to help us. A few months ago, he gave my workers and me permission to cut through a little alley he has between some of his buildings in order to get to our property.  It is not wide enough to drive though, and he would not allow the widows or their children to walk through there, but it has allowed the men and I to continue to get work done on the land, albeit slowly.  I asked him once a while ago if I could buy that strip, but he wasn't interested in selling.  But then this past weekend, totally out of the blue , he approached  

Checha is also willing to tear down the wall on the

left.  We will also have to move our fence posts out

 to accommodate my truck. It'll be a tight squeeze!

Rogelio and told him that he has decided to allow ALL of us in...and I don't have to buy it!  Not only that, but he is willing to build a little road (see pics) if I will help him with materials, AND he is willing to change his title to reflect these changes so that when his sons get their inheritance we will still have the right to use that entrance!  Praise the LORD!  This coming Monday, Rogelio and I will meet with Checha to hash out the details.  We are so excited!  I already had money on hand to buy the tools we needed to make the windows and the doors for the new house, but Rogelio and I decided to strike while the iron was hot and use that money to fix up this entrance instead.  It needs a lot of work to make it drivable, but it will be so worth it.  We are in awe of the fact that Checha is willing to do all this for us and has only asked us for help with labor and materials.  He knows the bind we are in and could easily take advantage of that to charge us a mountain of money, but he isn't.  God has given us favor and made a way where there was no way.   I told Him months ago that if He provided another way in that I would  drop the legal proceedings over the driveway.  I am not going to take down my doors on that side because I believe that God can still fix that situation and give me the driveway back, but I am no longer going to fight over it.  And if I never get it back, then being at peace is better than being right. It's God's anyway, and  I want whatever will bring Him the most glory in this situation.  Thank you all for your prayers on our behalf over the past 2 years.  Praise Him with us that this is nearing an end!