Blessings!

Our family has been blessed!
Lets just do a recap...

** oldest has secured a half day contract to teach with benefits, possibility to earn further income on horizon doing a tutoring post!

** Extra income; overtime pay, unexpected financial gift from relative and yesterday a call declaring I won a contest including a small financial reward.

These are monetary blessings. Things we needed to keep afloat during the summer months when things are tight. Financial wizards we are not. Mistakes were made early in our marriage and we are still making up for opportunities lost. This summer it has been placed in my heart to reorganize and gather all things of importance through the years; pictures, kid's school projects, baseball cards, mementos of past events and place them in secure enclosure for safe keeping. All our lives God has kept a splendid wing of Grace upon us!

My bum is so sore today from climbing in and out of third floor attic! I'm learning still the importance of being diligent in spending habits, organizing files, and creating new ways to manage the business side of our life together.

After the call came yesterday afternoon from the contest promoter, after I did my happy dance and thanked God Almighty, I found myself dwelling on His love and a quiet gentle fear came over me. The ball is in my court to announce properly how His glory should be revered in all this. I don't want to mess this up!

I don't want to expound on the trials I have been through and the fears I have held onto for too long.

All I want is for Him to glow brightly through this!

Part of the beautiful Psalm 118...

118:19
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord.


Gates are open; to witness, to speak more gently to God and others, to share and to love and forgive.