God Never Ceases to Amaze Me...

This Sunday I attended church for the first time in four weeks. The main reason for my lack of attendance was my second job as a waitress on the weekends. The shift made it impossible to go to church, get the kids to day care and then get to work by 11:30.

Within about two weeks of this I was starting to suffer spiritually and emotionally, and I requested that I no longer work on Sundays... Kind of a bold move for someone who had only been working there for two weeks, but I decided beforehand that if they weren't willing to budge I wasn't willing to sacrifice going to church, and that I would ultimately need to quit. Well, the manager agreed to the schedule change and my Sundays are now free...

So on January 1st, in an effort to start 2012 off on the right foot, I made sure that I spent it at church. While I was there the pastor approached me and slipped a piece of paper into my hand. When I opened it I realized that it was a check for $150! It made my day!

Fast forward to last night, realizing that my rent was due this morning I spent the evening trying to square away my finances and trying to recover from my December long spending spree. Well, as I went down the list I felt confident that when everything was said and done I would have enough to pay my largest expense, which is the rent. Unfortunately that didn't end up being the case though... I came to the sickening realization that I didn't have enough to pay my rent for January...

But then I realized something else... the amount that I was short. Would you believe that the exact amount that I had been unable to hang onto was the exact amount that my pastor had felt compelled to give to me just the day before? Yes, that's right! Exactly $150!

It made me think about the fact that even though I have been stretching myself to the limit with my two jobs and everything in between, I still didn't have enough to provide for me or my family. GOD on the other hand recognized what I needed, and then addressed (and solved!) the problem long before I even noticed that there was an issue...

What a blessing... And what a great way to start out the New Year!

God bless you all!