Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
E R Potter
29 episodes
3 months ago
I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.
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I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.
Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
10 minutes
4 months ago
GTMT-14 1973 Brazil: Part I - A Car and a Kid
1973 was the first full year we lived in Brazil. In this episode, I take a car 250 miles into the interior, promising to come back and pay for it three weeks later; Abbie asks me to get in bed with her just hours after she had a baby. Then I had to get up in the night and bring a bottle of warm milk from a pan on the wood stove in the hospital kitchen. This story of 1973 is divided into three short segments, with other significant happenings being related in the following two episodes of this...
Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.
