Sunday, 01 February 2009
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How do you express your extreme thankfulness for God’s provision of tremendous blessings in your life? You blog about it, of course!
Physical Blessings:
My wonderful, beautiful sister LeeAnne, and her wonderful husband, Gene, (Sorry, Gene, I can’t use beautiful unless I describe your heart!
) blessed me with a membership to a local gym. They joined the Y so Lynzi could learn to swim, but still had this contract they were paying on. She did all the paperwork so they could transfer the membership to me… something I could never afford on my own! I met with the personal trainer on Friday evening and learned he is a Marine Corps reservist! My first thought was, “Oh crap! I have a drill sergeant for a trainer!” but he was really sweet and stumbles over his words a lot. I meet with again on Tuesday after work. Bring on the pain!
Friend Blessings:
Elton John and Billy Joel are coming to Madison in May, just in time for my birthday! Knowing that we can never actually buy tickets ($99-179), I was determined to win tickets from one of the five or six radio stations giving them away before they went on sale. One station gave their listener’s club and “unfair internet advantage by listing the hour each day tickets would be given away. Knowing that I was fanatical about this, the ladies in my department all joined me in calling, believing that we had a better chance with seven people calling at once! We never got through, and I’m not going to the concert, but I sure do have great friends!
Financial Blessings:
I came home the other night and the internet was still not operational. I called the provider and they said our area no longer had an outage so it must be my connection. After 40 minutes on the phone and unplugging, restarting, plugging, and a bit of growling on my part, it was determined that the connection was fine, it was the router not allowing me to access the net. When the guy on the phone asked how old the router was, I told him it had to be at least four years old. He “diagnosed” that I would need a new router since “things die suddenly sometimes”.
Knowing that the budget has no wiggle room for new routers, I was determined that this one was NOT dead and would be resurrected and would work! I laid hands on the little purple and black contraption (it really was black and blue before I touched it!) and prayed over it. Then I disconnected it so I could get online, found a message board for that router and followed the directions listed to reboot the router.
TADA! As you can read this, I am back online with my “dead” router!
Spiritual Blessings:
As if the week couldn’t get any more blessed, I got a call on Friday afternoon from a new woman at the office to come to her cube as she needed to talk over something. When I got there, she shared that she won four tickets to the Chris Tomlin/Israel Houghton concert for Saturday night and wanted to know if I would like the last ticket and to go with her and two other ladies from the office!
Well, of course! The concert was incredible and Chris is a fabulous worship leader. To top it off, Christy Nockles of Watermark fame was singing with him and she is one of my favorite singers!
Experiencing great worship with some great ladies and knowing God has His best for me in His sights. WHOA!
How are you being blessed lately?
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