Over my pity party

I'm over my little rant from last week. Thanks for bearing with me through a tough & emotional day. I should be much quicker in the future to share with you God's provision and faithfulness. So my last post was Tuesday. On Wednesday, I came home from work to find something stuck in the handle of my garage door. I thought perhaps it was a flier for some local business or something. Was I WAY off! It was an envelope that said "rent help" on it. Now, call me naive, or foolish, or whatever you want, but at this point I thought, "hmm, maybe someone writing a letter requesting rent help & putting it here because this is the parsonage". (Yes, we've gotten many requests by random people stopping by this house in the past, so it's not totally unlikely!). Wrong again. $500 cash. WHAT!?!?!?!?!

SERIOUSLY??? I was beyond tears at this point (probably because I cried them all out on Tuesday - they came later that evening though). I was just in shock. I literally could not speak for about 3-4 minutes. Who in the world was this mystery gift giver? How did they know? Who in the world has an extra $500 laying around to help me? Who am I to deserve such help? It was just completely overwhelming, in a very good way. I am blessed beyond belief. Between that and the check we got for hosting another exchange student, we are able to once again this month pay our rent and our mortgage. God did it in February, and he did it again in March. Our God is WAY bigger than our problems, no matter how big those may seem.

This gift has spurred me on once again towards praying for relief from debt. I'm not expecting God to take away our school loans or anything like that, but I am praying that God helps us reduce our debt quickly, and that he gives us wisdom with our finances. I CANNOT WAIT until we can bless someone else the way that we have been blessed. If my anonymous gift giver is reading this, bless you and thank you, and know that when we are able, we will be paying it forward. Whoa. What a faithful God we serve.