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I've had a few interruptions over the last few weeks. But now I'm back. I'm a bit blue due to a disorganized, no hot water, toilet training, oversleeping, DH-is-going-out-of-town-type of morning. I'm hoping that writing a few lines will be therapeutic. Our Christmas was very sweet and I enjoyed everything about it. I am keenly aware of the privilege it is to serve my family during this season because of the three Decembers I spent on the couch, suffering from a high risk pregnancy. Now I delight in the baking, shopping, decorating stress of it. It was a beautiful time for us. The highlight was in the mail on December 23. My husband walked into the kitchen with an open envelope in his hand. His face was frozen in disbelief. He slowly said, "Oh . . . My . . . Goodness!" In the envelope was a gift card to Home Dept worth $3000! The donor left only this message: "God bless you on your home improvement project. Matthew 6." We were astounded. We looked up the passage and read it aloud as a family, asking our older children what this meant. I asked our oldest what she could make of it and she said, "You were faithful so God blessed us."I started to cry. We shared our story with my in-law family Christmas Eve and they were rejoicing with us. It was a Merry Christmas indeed! Yesterday, Monday, my husband had a sales rep from Home Depot come by for an estimate. The young man was probably in his early '30's, tall and friendly. I joined the two of them in the future school room and joked, "Now, we've been waiting for you for about seven years." He said, "I hear you're the homeschooling Mom of five?" "Yes," I said, "This is kind of a walk of faith for us. Did my husband tell you we were given $3000?" "So, you must be a born again Christian? Christians are the only people I know of that have stuff like that happen to them. I am too. I figured you were with the homeschooling and the five kids and all." He asked to hear more of our story and we gladly told him. As he finalized his estimate for the work, he said, "Now, I want to throw out my commission. I'm encouraged by your story. It inspires me to walk in faith too!" We were shocked. His commission would have been around $200! We were so blessed by him and his generosity that we invited him to dinner and he accepted. (Poor thing, didn't have a wife to make him a loving meal.) After he left, my husband and I marvelled that God worked so hard to orchestrate this meeting between us and this salesman. We are confident that he has blessing after blessing lined up for us this year, some that will be even more impressive than that. So now, the plan is that we will have the next phase of our house completed in six weeks or so. We haven't the funds to do the next thing, but we've concluded that this gift card was our daily bread, our manna. God will provide for the next step as he sees fit. Ooooo! I can't wait! |
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