Yesterday, I went grocery shopping with my kids. I was armed with coupons galore. I usually take a shopping list with me, but this time my coupons were my list (besides the list in my head).

One thing I didn't need a coupon for was cheese. You know those packs of shredded cheese that are, more often than not, ridiculously expensive? Well...let me tell ya...at the store I was shopping at (Fred Meyer, if you have one of those near you), they had packs of shredded cheese for $1.66! Like I was going to walk by THAT sale! Ha! No, I loaded up on six of those babies. Should've gotten more. You NEVER see packs of shredded cheese for that little, at least not in Preppy-Hummerville, like the area we live in.

I got cheddar: mild and medium (don't like sharp). I got mozzerella. I got Italian blend. I got more mozzerella. I felt like the queen of the dairy aisle. Why isn't parmesan ever that cheap?

My back and the rest of me, thanks to my long-time friend, fibromyalgia, was killing me by the time we got home. My wonderful offspring unloaded the groceries from the car, brought them in, and put them away (most of them). As I lay on my back on my bedroom floor, trying to calm down the lovely muscle spasms, I could hear my kids talking in the kitchen.

Erica (in a stage whisper): What's with all this cheese? Why is there so much? Oh, my gosh.

Jesse: Mom got it.

Erica: But there's so much! Ugh. We don't need all this cheese!

Jesse (in a very low voice): Mom thinks we do.

Isn't that just like us, and how we react to what God gives? Just as I know that my family will use all that cheese, and probably within a week, God knows our needs better than we do. And maybe, just maybe, when He's given us what we think is too much, it's because He wants us to share it with others.

Whatever you're worried about, whatever needs you have, trust Him today.

"I was young and now am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

They are always generous and lend freely;

their children will be blessed."

Psalm 37:25-26