I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
First of all I want to say that I jack...um borrowed the name in lights and fireworks from One.
Secondly, I've had a heck of a turn around in the last 24 hours. Yesterday I had some things on my mind that really concerned me, but those have been remedied and all is good.
Third, my Thanksgiving hospital visit has put me in a really bad spot financially for Christmas.
I was down to $1.76, with no payday between now and Christmas and not a single gift purchased yet for one of my boys. They know already that Christmas for us is doing for others anyway (we have a field day with after-Christmas sales) and they were satisfied with putting others who had even less, before us.
I knew I had some Christmas money coming from my father, so I knew that I'd have something under the tree for both sons. Then I picked up the mail...
Turns out the day I went to the ER, I'd actually been on my way to make a deposit. I figured the day before Thanksgiving, if I didn't make it, I could still get there first thing Friday morning to cover a check I'd written. Wrong.
Well, I knew it bounced, it was written to an agency that I knew there was no point in trying to contact (too many recordings), so I waited for the notice. And you guessed it, with $1.76 in my account, I got it. It said that I had until 12/24 to get a money order into their office *eye roll* Come on, Christmas eve?
So I did the only thing I could do. I remembered the video I posted, (before all those 2Pac videos) I got into my faith and asked God to do what He does.
Now I had a sleep study last night and I knew that I had to consciously push worry out of my mind. Well, right before I went to sleep, I got an answer to the questions I'd needed, so that was on my mind as I fell asleep.
When I woke up, I told God that I was depending on Him for help and I knew He wouldn't let me down. In the car, just as my mind started wandering and heading toward worry, I heard a radio spot for a church in a nearby city. The pastor was saying if you pray, don't worry and if you worry, don't pray. I kept my mind right and started thanking God for money.
I took my son to school and went home and set my clock for noon. I snuggled back up under the covers and as I drifted off to sleep, my mind started worrying about other bills that weren't even due yet.
I flipped on the gospel station on my digital cable and drifted off to sleep. I woke up to a song I love and I started praising Him. Walking around the house singing God's got a blessing with MY name on it!
I checked the mail before leaving to pick up my son from school and there was a flexible spendable reimbursable claim in it. What that means is that I now had 2 1/2 hours to go by my job and file it in order to have $175 in my pocket on Friday. I thanked God for it REPEATEDLY and began to think that one problem was solved, what about the other?
On the way to my job, I got a call from my dad. He got his money 2 days early and I would be able to pick up my Christmas money today!
So in a matter of hours, I went from $1.76 to over 100 times that!
Isn't God Awesome?
Here's the video I spoke of...
