Looking for a Miracle

This is the time of year when strange and wonderful things happen. A time for magic and miracles, when the extraordinary becomes the ordinary.
Over the last few months we have been trying desperately to find some way to save our home. While finishing the last of the college courses for my Associates Degree, I’ve been applying for jobs. We’ve got a group of Attorneys working on a law suit and trying to get the title to the house back. I even set up a web site to try to collect enough money to buy the house back from the people trying to sell it out from under us. Unfortunately, as the holidays hurtle towards us, we still have no answers. Getting through school has taken way to long, jobs are still way to scarce, the law works way too slowly and I couldn’t even find 1,000 people willing to donate a dollar each to us, never mind the 165,000 we needed to buy the house back. Christmas is just days away; people are rushing around shopping, going to parties, saying Happy Holidays. My husband and I haven’t had a happy holiday since 2002, when I had a job.
To the hand full of people who stepped up to help us by donating money, thank you so much. You have no Idea how much it means.
To the two media sources, TV 38 and WCCA TV 13, who saw fit to publicize our plight, thank you, for having the integrity to report news, not script it.
To the media sources, celebrities, corporations, government officials and individuals I appealed to over those months, who chose to ignore us and our plight, I sincerely hope that you, your friends, families and loved ones never find themselves in the same kind of untenable situation. Or, if any of you do, that you find more sympathetic and generous people than we did. (If you read any of the letters or information I sent and posted you will know that we aren’t just losing our home in an ordinary foreclosure.)
Our house, our home, is set to be auctioned off on January 9th 2008.
Partly because of those same holidays, I just don’t see any way out of this dilemma, there isn’t enough time. The Attorneys would have to get the title to the house back, I’d have to get a good paying job and we’d have to work something out with the bank in just over ten business days. Things just don’t happen that quickly in our modern, fast paced world. Sadly, fifty or so years ago you could have…things were less complicated,
So, unless someone out there has a miracle in their pocket, we’re out of time, out of luck and out of hope.
Oh, regardless of everything we’ve been through, and are going through,
Happy Holidays.