(Can't you just see God in heaven, letting out a sigh of relief? "Oh goody, my revelation made sense!" I'm sure herds of angels are rejoicing at the thought.) *playful grin*
He said that my heart is to be transparent... so that He can be seen through me.
Pretty stinkin' poetic, if you ask me.
Couple that with my new life motto "It is what it is" and you have one lady who is learning to care less and less about what people think. and becoming more and more willing to just take my life as it comes...
putting it out there for the sake of allowing Christ to strut his Miracle Making Stuff in the midst of my crazy life.
That said, here's the update to my Three Week Period of waiting:
January 12th:
-Jet's place of employment had a prayer time at the office, asking for breakthrough in the midst of this economic mess
-Someone (who does not read my blog) just walked up and gave Jet $100 because he said God told him to.
January 13th
-Church called. Someone gave an anonymous donation of $300 to put toward truck tires.
-Town came and fixed our septic.
-Jet started fasting for breakthrough
January 14th
-Selah with 103 temp.
-The town's meter-readers come to re-read our electric meters. They held their ground and said its accurate. Unbelievable!
-Faxed more paperwork to hospital financial aid department, showing that they overestimated our assets.
-A friend emailed me about Fuel Heating Assistance Program through our town. News to me! THANK YOU, Friend!
-I researched to find that our state's Social Services also offered a fuel assistance program, and that I could apply for both of them.
-Did our taxes....getting back a substantial refund
January15th
-Church called. Someone gave us $500! All I could say when Jet told me was "Why?!"
-Talked to our town's fuel assistance. program person. God gave me extreme favor with her. She went ahead and told me, on the phone, that we qualified for a one-time help amount. She gave us two options: $300 towards electric or 100 gallons of oil.
-Turned in the fuel assistance application to the state's social services. They processed the application immediately (another miracle!). And due to the paycut Jet took, we qualified down to the dollar. They delivered $584 of oil (253.9 gallons) a few hours later!! For free.
January 16th
-Jet home sick. All of the girls really sick with fevers, sore throats, etc
-Jet called the hospital financial aid department. They showed us favor by taking our application out of order (they have strict policy that they process it in the order they get it). She said that we still don't qualify. But after we pay another big bill that's due, she said we will. (such a large pain in the butt...this whole proving to them that we have bills and aren't sitting on a large sum of money)
-Jet broke his fast after conversation with hospital
January 17th
-Mom came over to give strep tests. Everyone was positive except me
-Had extreme favor with doctors. Never had to leave the house, except to pick up Rxs.
January 18th
-Mom said that the people renting my Gma's house had an extra desktop computer that they wanted to give away. And while I'm still praying for a laptop, this is still a miracle b/c our desktop is also on its way out. (Can you tell we use our computers until they keel over?)
January 19th
-Jet took another sick day.
-Had appointment with the town's fuel assistance lady. Made the arrangements for her to pay $300 of our electric bill. Wa-hoo!
January 21
-Jet took back space heaters that we bought two months ago (which apparently jacked up our bill)?? He got back $312.00. The exact amount we needed to pay the rest of the electric bill.
So there you have it. A part of God's provision these last few days. The other part is in the making. Top Secret stuff. :) To be revealed whenever it becomes more official. Don't you love a good intrigue?
Admittedly, it hasn't been easy accepting help from people. Part of me is like "Can I just crawl under a rock now?"
But then I think...that is exactly what my heart longs to do: I want to be able to walk up to someone in the grocery store, hand them $200, and walk away. I want to go shopping for some one's child, buy them school clothes, take it to their door, and leave it there. I want to bless people like that. And one day, I trust that I'll be able to.
For now, I can only say thank you, Lord, for providing like you have. I will continue to trust...
