en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/6656593 Comments by whitedove38583 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616764629 thank you for the kind reply! i been thru some hardships and i know there are others out there much worse off then me. i kind of like to think about JOB. You know the devil can not touch one without having to ask God first, Satan had to ask God each time he hurt JOBS life and yet he lost everything but Gods love and then gained much more back. i don't have a big home here but i do got a mansion in Heaven Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:13:30 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616764629 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616760820 awww, well thank you so do you Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:06:08 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616760820 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616760270 by all means do. i fully believe in the power of prayer. God has given me some huge miracles in my time despite all the hardships. my photo is of dawn. she is now 1 year old and having been thru heart surgery God has blessed me and her mom the power of a miracle that she is still here with us after docs gave up on her one mighty doc named Jesus Christ didn't. bible says he the greatsest doc and by all means he is! Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:05:13 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616760270 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616757877 well, i sure don't wish to bring anyone down. i just felt that by letting others know my struggles maybe they could see for themselves that even with what little you may have there are others out there having it rougher then you and they consider you to be rich, thus by the Grace of God i am richer then those homeless right now Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:00:38 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment616757877 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment613609172 I love the area of jacksonville florida, my niece lives there. her dad my brother passed away dec 1 2008 he was 48 years old same age as my mom, she passed away 2 weeks before my 16th birthday, never forget it, she had cancer and was buried on mothers day in 1988. i been taking care of dad ever since, and dad had cancer and beat it, thank God for that, still here with me. my niece she has a 1 year old daughter that had heart problems, her name is dawn and when she was born her heart was pumping backwords, instead of left to right it was pumping right to left, shes 1 year old now and still got several surgerys to go thur. if anyone here prays please keep her in your prayers, little dawn merie, named merie after my mom estele merie. I think its great your helping the community, i do a lot of volunteering here as well, cant wait to start trying to win this, keep my fingers crossed, would relly love to be close to my niece and great niece Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:35:52 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment613609172 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment613607164 wow!!! This is by far the most prettiest home yet! I entered so many times for the other one and prayed so much because a lot of families in my area are going hungry and homeless and i had plans that if i had won the last one the $500,000 check would have gone to build homes for the so many homeless in our area here in tennessee. there is a little place called mama from heaven food pantry, they give out food each thursday and each week the line just grows and grows, i was if i had won the last home in carolias i would have gotten a 100 dollar food gift card to a local store and had plans to give it out to each and every family in line, plus around christmas time i was gonna go to the homeless shelter and personally hand each family keys to a home, either a mobile home or a simple house but i was not chosen the winner again thus God had other plans for me i guess. i love the idea that its helping the local community by giving tours of this home. i tell you it is really beautiful, compared to what i live in a tiny 1967 camper but i have come thru some rough hard times but God has always helped me get thru it all. Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:31:48 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/04/04/hgtv-smart-home-2013-public-charity-tours-now-available/#IDComment613607164 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602978007 so when i am not online doing surveys, looking and applying for jobs, i am volunteering with the police department and helping with fundraisers. i was just promoted to be secrtery and i have to admit i have no idea what i am doing, guess i will learn it soon lol. but i enjoy it. one of our K9s is retiring and not sure if they have a replacement but if you pray please keep the CPD in your prayers. they get out every day to make sure we are safe and most dont even get thanked for all they do but we gonna give them and their families a police officer appreceiation day sometime in may. and thank you both for the kind replies! Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:21:26 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602978007 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602977778 i stayed in my old 77 station wagon and kept warm by a barrel i had outside to burn trash well i ended up burning my funiture and then my clothes but i finaly was able to get this 67 camper and i been in it ever since i guess i was as close to the bottom as one could get so i know what its like and i think that is what motivates me to do good for others. i may be in a little camper but i have a roof over my head, a little food to eat, internet so i can make a few money here and there made about 800 last year doing surveys and it does help somewhat but with what i got i am in fact richer then most because there is about 500 families in my county that dont have a home right now. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:20:51 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602977778 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602977649 thank you you know i was not like this before. i had a good job, at one time i was paying 502 a month for a 1995 dodge dakota pickup, 325 a month for a 1993 jeep, a new mobile home with payments of 300 a month, plus eating good, had vacations and all but just in a second it can all change. a guy at work got hurt, took a law suit out against the company, many were laid off including me, first thing i lost was my truck and jeep, unemployment wasnt barley enough to buy food let along pay the bills, in november 1995 2 days before thanksgiving a police officer pulls up and a guy from the bank, tells me to get out they are taking my mobile home, i took all my funiture inside and put it outside, everything i owned got destroyed because it was cold that night and it snowed. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:20:28 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602977649 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602976355 yep, your right. i get denied everytime i apple, got a letter from habatat the other day it said we are sorry to inform you but do to your income we can not get you approved. i am not sure what state you guys are from but we have a uchra and i went there and they sent me to this creative compassions place and i went there and was told the same thing. you know what my plans would have been if i had won that home and the 500,000 it would not be spent on me, none of the big check would be for me. see because i have lived in this camper since 1996 it would go to helping others in my area that dont make over $1000 per month, i would buy a piece of land, a lot or something like that and depending upon rather the lot was restiricted or not i would either build a small 2 bedroom home or pull in a mobile home then on christmas eve go to the bread of life in our town. its a homeless shelter here and just start handing out keys and directions to each home but that wont happen this year for me so i guess i will try again next year. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:17:21 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment602976355 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment598933803 i mean people who have that much each month can afford another home or at least a mobile but one who dont even make that amount cant even get help to get a home, its hard trying to get a job especially for me as i have had a heart attack and have asthma, so i assume i am a liability and thus why they wont hire me, but i want to work you know. help on my spare time i volunteer for the police department and help with their funraisers and all. i enjoy doing it, just dont get paid any and i think we are planning on giving the officers a family type day soon like a little picknick and all cause they do so much for us and hardly ever thanked for all their help. i even tried extreem home makeover but they choose to do a school that had kids in nashville after that flood but oh well i even wrote to santa ( lol i know crazy i know ) but anyhow i just keep praying to God, hey i may not get a home down here but i got a mansion in heaven lol Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:31:37 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment598933803 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment598933689 thank you for the nice comment beehivestate. love your screen name. i have tried getting a job cause habatat for humanity and that creative compassions both told me if i had a job and it increased my income to over $1500 a month then they could build me a home, but heck if i were making that much a month i would not need them to build me a home because i would have enough to buy a new mobile home. thats what i do not understand? Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:31:23 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment598933689 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment598248811 well congratulations to you. i tried many times but not yet gotten a home. i live in tennessee too, not far from you. i have a hubby who has copd and a disabilied dad i take care of and i volunteer for the local pd and i tried to get that habatat for humanity home but unless you make 1500 or more per month they wont help the really poor people and i was sent to a creative compassion place, they too said i did not have enough income. we get 710 a month, not much i know but i am still here in my 1967 camper hoping and praying for miracle some day. i have internet yes, because i make about 100 extra per month doing surveys and kind of not getting to upset by going online and chatting and dreaming. good luck to you and your future, always wanted to go to australia myself shoot i never been anywhere beside tennessee but enjoy your new home its really pretty Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:22:24 +0000 http://blog.hgtv.com/sweepstakes/2013/03/15/hgtv-dream-home-2013-meet-the-winner/#IDComment598248811