Saint Matthew's Churches too many corny mailings ripoff Tulsa Oklahoma

I've been wanting to look these folks up for a while, but I didn't have a computer or the internet at home until recently. I received their first mailing of the prayer rug, with a personalized letter. Like a lot of you who have written in, I was at the end of my financial rope. I had been out of work for over two years, and unable to seek out a different path for myself. Having given up my massage therapy career due to chronic injuries, I simply couldn't find a new direction for myself.

I knew that I could easily get a minimum wage job, but that would never replace my earnings as a massage therapist. I needed to find something that would cover my living expenses, and it seemed that what I was looking for would forever elude me. I was beginning to feel as if no one "upstairs" was listening. I was losing faith in having faith, growing more and more depressed by the day.

So the prayer rug arrived one day, with all the corny literature. I looked at it and thought, "Now how ridiculous is this!" At the same time, as a holistic healthcare bodyworker, I've come to believe that most things in life are not cooincidence. Things happens for a reason, so surely this prayer rug and letter is significant somehow.

So I knelt on it and cried over my deplorable situation, and prayed for God's help, yet again. I sent these folks $10.00 which I couldn't afford, but I did it anyway. I figured I had nothing to lose, but ten bucks. And I have surely wasted far more than that on stupid, frivoulous purchases in my lifetime.

After reading all these letters here, I sort of feel like a dummy, like I should have made an effort to get to the library and research these folks before sending them my $10.00. But as it turns out, I DID have a change in my circumstances occur, a few weeks after filling out and returning the silly papers to these people.

I had an offer to teach masssge therapy at a school, which I actually turned down (!), because at the exact same time I had an offer to do massage therapy at a beautiful prestigious spa located 15 minutes from my home! Wow! Now, is that just happenstance? Could be . . . could be something more.

I have been working at this lovely spa for 3 months now, with no reaggravation to my prior injuries. I'm back to doing what I have always done best; massage therapy. I am so totally happy and at peace in my life for the first time in a very long time. I was even able to buy a computer and get the internet!

I realize now that the reason nothing worked out for so long, is that I was simply not meant to do anything else. I was to return to my chosen field, in a setting that would be the best yet. The timing wasn't my choice, it was God's choice.

So I guess I'm a foolish person in some people's eyes, to have had faith in these people without investigating them first, but isn't that what faith is about? If they are not legitimate, then my ten dollars went to someone's personal pocket. There are far worse problems in life.

Yes, it can be a bit irritating that they send me a letter every week. But their mailings also makes me smile; I choose to look at them like little reminders that someone out there is thinking about me-even if it is bogus!

And if someone there actually did pray on my behalf , I guess I'll never actually know, but until proven otherwise, wouldn't it be better to believe that someone did me a kindness, than to carry the burden of feeling I'd been ripped off?

Jane
Eighty Four, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.