What Blessings!

Well, the test seemed to go well today....the tech said everything looked "beautiful"!  Officially, I can't see my doctor until next week at the soonest but I am hoping that soon we can schedule the final surgery.

So that was great, but listen to this. I know I tend to go on and on, but bear with me:) I recently joined www.freecycle.com and I needed to either get something or give something within a certain time frame, or get kicked off. I have been asking God what to do about the tithing question, and about certain other things that I just can't figure out, and after a couple of weeks, I felt compelled to give my Victorian Chair away on Freecycle. Now, usually on this site, they give away useful things and there are a lot of truly needy people that use it, I'm sure, but something kept telling me to give the chair and the caning kit.

I had tons of emails from folks wanting a finished chair, or just the caning kit, a set of chairs, or sadly, a canning kit for canning food (I need to educate myself in writing posts for that site). I read through them all and tried to get a sense of someone who understood what it was (no pics on this site), and started emailing a girl who said her boyfriend was a woodworker and had done caning before.She needed a chair for her desk and he would put the seat in for her.  

We made plans to meet at a public spot, in front of cameras and I was five minutes away when she called and said she was stuck in tunnel traffic. I was a little concerned, since I had just had the test and was tired, but I felt compelled to tell her it was no problem, I would wait. I had been craving an apple fritter, so I went to the 7-11, got gas, got a fritter and coffee, and went to the meeting spot to have my picnic. I sat in the sun and ate the fritter while the coffee cooled and thought about how I had just felt that I had to tell this woman that since I had no money to tithe, I wanted to give away stuff. This sounds crazy, but I swear, ever since we planned the drop off, it just kept looping around in my mind. Now when I get "a feeling" to do something and the feeling doesn't quit, I do it. Call me stupid or whatever you want, but I trust my intuition.

Sooooo, she showed up just as I finished up my picnic, and she was a beautiful lady about my age who apologized all over the place for being late and thanked me profusely for giving away the stuff. I told her that I had had cancer and couldn't tithe money, so I was going to try giving away stuff instead. She just looked at me and kind of started to say something a few times, I mean her mouth opened and nothing came out, then finally she said, " Do you mind if I pray for you right now?" Now, there was a day when I would have been embarrassed to death, but no longer! I said sure. And she put her hand on my arm and said the most beautiful, eloquent prayer for God to heal me and take care of me. Then I thanked her profusely and told her that I do so believe that prayer works, and marveled at how God brought people together at the right time for the right things. And I didn't burst into tears like I normally do any time people do nice things for me! She said she was on unemployment and the chair was a real gift for her, so I felt very happy indeed.

Now, don't ask me why I felt so strongly that I needed to do all this stuff, but look how great it turned out.  I am (I hate to say "amazed" because that word has been used to the absolute limit, but.....) in awe of the power of God to bring about good in our lives if we only ask for and follow directions.

Thanks for listening to my Happy Day story and have your own very happy day!

Comments

[Annie Lawrence]

This brought happy tears to my eyes!!