An answered prayer...and a double meat roast beef sandwich!
Here we are on the night before my Birthday/Mother's Day weekend. My birthday is on Mother's day this year, and how cool is that! Tomorrow, Scott has off, and we get to celebrate! Yea! Something very cool happened today, and I wanted to share with everyone!
I have been praying for several weeks about a job, and today, God answered my prayer. I had been offered a job at a doctor's office working for my mother-in-law as a receptionist. I would make good money, but it broke my heart to think of being away from my little ones all day, and with Scott working Swing shift, I knew we would never see each other. I prayed and sought the Lord. (After stressing for two days of course:) This morning right before my workout, I started reading an In Touch Magazine. I opened up to a story about knowing God's will, and it blessed me. It basically said, if I don't have peace, wait... and when I think yes, and the Lord says yes, and my spirit is at peace, than I can proceed.
So I started my workout with Gilad. (He meets me in my living room via channel 368 at 6 am every morning.) Well, during my workout they went to commercial, which I always hate! So I am marching in place and keeping my heart rate up watching commercials, waiting for Gilad to come back, when this commercial comes on with an old woman at a restaurant. The waitress took her order, and then gave the order to the cook. They both notice the woman is sad, and decide she needs some friends, so they decided to sit and have a cup of coffee with her, and her whole face brightened, and she became happy! It was in this moment of commercial time, that I knew what God wanted me to do.
You see I had been thinking of waitressing at night at a nice restaurant just until my kids got bigger, or God told me he had something else. It came to me last night when Scott and I were laying in bed, I was telling him that I was sad that I wasn't more in my career. I always thought that I would be something, since I grew up in a successful home, and graduated valedictorian, I figured I would be something. Other than a mom, and a wife, I didn't really know what else I should be. He blessed me so much! He held me when I asked him, "What if all I ever do is be a waitress?" He gave me the perfect answer that gave me peace, "So what if you are?" And I got it! As long as I was where Jesus wanted me to be, what else mattered? I could be home with my children, and bless them during the day, possibly others at night, and work when Scott worked, and Grandma and Papa would have the children, whom they adore, and it could really be a way to work it out!
I went to church for Bible study this morning, and spent some time with a good friend, and then prayed on my way home. I had Papa watch the kids so I could go fill out an application. I went to the restaurant, sat down to fill out the application and test. While I was there I noticed the women were exceptionally sweet and thoughtful with the customers. I was listening to good old music, and watching the veterans next to me talk comfortably with one another, and the waitresses even called them by their name. Once I finished filling everything out, I looked up and saw the manager, who asked me if I was done, and I smiled and said, "yes, " and he told me to hand it to the woman he was sitting with. I noticed they were giving me this look, like, "How old is she?" I just asked them if they were wondering how old I was? (I don't really even know why I asked them that.) They nodded, and I said, "26." They smiled and said, "That changes everything!" They had been sitting there trying to figure out if I was even 18! How funny! In the course of our conversation, we discovered that we were all Christians! And they hired me after about 30 minutes! Come to find out, while I was filling out the application, another server called in and quit, and guess what shift they needed me to work? You guessed it! Swing! Which means I will be home with my kiddos and husband during the day and work at night! To some of you this may seem crazy, but to me, a mother of three, I am very excited about it!
On my drive home, I passed a bumber sticker that said, "First things First." So I immediately turned down my radio, and began to praise God aloud for meeting my needs right on time. He is such a good God. Isn't He? He knew what I needed, and when those managers shook my hand, and said, "Welcome, you are gonna like working here!" My heart soared!
One last, very sweet thing... Last week I learned that it is so important for our husbands to have their wives get up with them in the morning. Well, right now, Scott is working days for training. He gets up at 5 am, and I didn't want to get up that early! Well, I began doing it out of love and respect for him. I started making his lunch, and found that I really actually liked doing it for him! It felt so good! Well, on Wednesday, he came in and complimented me on how nice I looked, and said,"Lately I look at you, and think, mmm, that's my wife." Blessed my socks off! I thought, wow! thanks! Come to find out, the day before, he opened his lunch box to a very nice roast beef sandwich, with, I guess twice the amount of meat as usual. (I didn't even know I did anything different with his sandwich!) Well, I guess he felt so loved by that double meat sandwich, that his heart was extra happy! He took me on a long bike ride that night, just the two of us, and hugged me a lot, and we played like little kids! It was so amazing what a double meat-roast-beef sandwich can do for one's marriage:) I am sure there is more to it than that, but the point of this is, to all the women... our men enjoy our company early in the morning, and they like a lunch packed with our loving hands, a note, and, oh! don't forget, the extra meat!;)
Sorry to have written so much, but I really wanted to share these things with you and give God the glory for the things he has done today in our home! I encourage you to start your own blog, too! It's free, and very easy, and it's such a wonderful way to keep up with each other! I really enjoy sharing with you guys! Feel free to leave comments at the bottom of each entry, too. There is a place that says, comments, you can click on that, and follow the directions. It's always nice to hear back form people. I didn't even know you could do that until this week! My friend, Katie, showed me! (Thanks, Katie, and I love your comments, you always make my heart happy!) Bountiful blessings on all of you!
I have been praying for several weeks about a job, and today, God answered my prayer. I had been offered a job at a doctor's office working for my mother-in-law as a receptionist. I would make good money, but it broke my heart to think of being away from my little ones all day, and with Scott working Swing shift, I knew we would never see each other. I prayed and sought the Lord. (After stressing for two days of course:) This morning right before my workout, I started reading an In Touch Magazine. I opened up to a story about knowing God's will, and it blessed me. It basically said, if I don't have peace, wait... and when I think yes, and the Lord says yes, and my spirit is at peace, than I can proceed.
So I started my workout with Gilad. (He meets me in my living room via channel 368 at 6 am every morning.) Well, during my workout they went to commercial, which I always hate! So I am marching in place and keeping my heart rate up watching commercials, waiting for Gilad to come back, when this commercial comes on with an old woman at a restaurant. The waitress took her order, and then gave the order to the cook. They both notice the woman is sad, and decide she needs some friends, so they decided to sit and have a cup of coffee with her, and her whole face brightened, and she became happy! It was in this moment of commercial time, that I knew what God wanted me to do.
You see I had been thinking of waitressing at night at a nice restaurant just until my kids got bigger, or God told me he had something else. It came to me last night when Scott and I were laying in bed, I was telling him that I was sad that I wasn't more in my career. I always thought that I would be something, since I grew up in a successful home, and graduated valedictorian, I figured I would be something. Other than a mom, and a wife, I didn't really know what else I should be. He blessed me so much! He held me when I asked him, "What if all I ever do is be a waitress?" He gave me the perfect answer that gave me peace, "So what if you are?" And I got it! As long as I was where Jesus wanted me to be, what else mattered? I could be home with my children, and bless them during the day, possibly others at night, and work when Scott worked, and Grandma and Papa would have the children, whom they adore, and it could really be a way to work it out!
I went to church for Bible study this morning, and spent some time with a good friend, and then prayed on my way home. I had Papa watch the kids so I could go fill out an application. I went to the restaurant, sat down to fill out the application and test. While I was there I noticed the women were exceptionally sweet and thoughtful with the customers. I was listening to good old music, and watching the veterans next to me talk comfortably with one another, and the waitresses even called them by their name. Once I finished filling everything out, I looked up and saw the manager, who asked me if I was done, and I smiled and said, "yes, " and he told me to hand it to the woman he was sitting with. I noticed they were giving me this look, like, "How old is she?" I just asked them if they were wondering how old I was? (I don't really even know why I asked them that.) They nodded, and I said, "26." They smiled and said, "That changes everything!" They had been sitting there trying to figure out if I was even 18! How funny! In the course of our conversation, we discovered that we were all Christians! And they hired me after about 30 minutes! Come to find out, while I was filling out the application, another server called in and quit, and guess what shift they needed me to work? You guessed it! Swing! Which means I will be home with my kiddos and husband during the day and work at night! To some of you this may seem crazy, but to me, a mother of three, I am very excited about it!
On my drive home, I passed a bumber sticker that said, "First things First." So I immediately turned down my radio, and began to praise God aloud for meeting my needs right on time. He is such a good God. Isn't He? He knew what I needed, and when those managers shook my hand, and said, "Welcome, you are gonna like working here!" My heart soared!
One last, very sweet thing... Last week I learned that it is so important for our husbands to have their wives get up with them in the morning. Well, right now, Scott is working days for training. He gets up at 5 am, and I didn't want to get up that early! Well, I began doing it out of love and respect for him. I started making his lunch, and found that I really actually liked doing it for him! It felt so good! Well, on Wednesday, he came in and complimented me on how nice I looked, and said,"Lately I look at you, and think, mmm, that's my wife." Blessed my socks off! I thought, wow! thanks! Come to find out, the day before, he opened his lunch box to a very nice roast beef sandwich, with, I guess twice the amount of meat as usual. (I didn't even know I did anything different with his sandwich!) Well, I guess he felt so loved by that double meat sandwich, that his heart was extra happy! He took me on a long bike ride that night, just the two of us, and hugged me a lot, and we played like little kids! It was so amazing what a double meat-roast-beef sandwich can do for one's marriage:) I am sure there is more to it than that, but the point of this is, to all the women... our men enjoy our company early in the morning, and they like a lunch packed with our loving hands, a note, and, oh! don't forget, the extra meat!;)
Sorry to have written so much, but I really wanted to share these things with you and give God the glory for the things he has done today in our home! I encourage you to start your own blog, too! It's free, and very easy, and it's such a wonderful way to keep up with each other! I really enjoy sharing with you guys! Feel free to leave comments at the bottom of each entry, too. There is a place that says, comments, you can click on that, and follow the directions. It's always nice to hear back form people. I didn't even know you could do that until this week! My friend, Katie, showed me! (Thanks, Katie, and I love your comments, you always make my heart happy!) Bountiful blessings on all of you!
posted by Solid Rock Youth Ranch | 10:19 PM
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Praise God!! Isn't He good? Shaun and I were just talking about how gently He always works things out with us. We were saying that we always expect, even ask for a big sign, and want that drastic, rude awakening, and then as things unfold, He takes us gently instead.
When we found this apartment we had to first lose three offers on houses and make a deposit on a different apartment in a different complex before He got us to listen...and now we know without a doubt that we were supposed to be here all along. He knew where we'd be happier and I'm so glad we at least heard Him enough to end up here!!
Everything in my life has been like this. Every huge decision and place I've ended up at...I look back and He was so gentle and patient, and yet it's still so hard to believe He can care for each of us like this...so personally...when there are so many. Yet He does. Praise Him!
Congratulations and may I commend you and say I am in awe of your wonderful attitude; of wanting to work all night to be awake with your kids all day. What an inspiration you are to be so thankful at what others would gripe endlessly about! I pray for stamina and rest for you in the midst of it all!! You are an amazing woman to do all you do for your family! I'm sure they know that well and don't need to hear it from me, though! Press on!
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