Blessing Abound!

I got a new car today. It's an 07 Pontiac Grand Prix, it's a goldish/brown color, leather seats, moon roof, kick butt stereo and I got it for the price I wanted with the payment I wanted! God is so good to me! I anguished for months over buying a new car but God delivered for me! I prayed and prayed over this and then last week I found out the rack and pinion needed to be replaced in my old car. It was a Mercury Sable and had 194,000 miles on it! I literally drove the wheels off it. I had to stop 3 times on the way to the car dealership to put power steering fluid in it to even get it over there! Talk about God's perfect timing! It was spewing ps fluid all over their parking lot...embarassing!

God gave me 2 Sam 7:28 last night

O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant

I meditated on it and went to sleep with it on my lips. In this verse David is thanking God even though he found out he would not have the priviledge of building the temple. He still loved God and praised Him. As I drifted off to sleep with this verse in my mouth I had a vision and it was as if I was in heaven. Everything was like it was coated in water, the most crystal clear water you could imagine and it was magnificient. I don't know why I was there or what I was doing but it was a beautiful place and I felt safer than I have ever left before, more peace than I have ever felt before. It was just a few seconds but it was wonderful. The colors of everything were brighter than I have ever seen them, almost like a cartoon. It was very clean and perfect in every sense. I remember seeing it, feeling the peace, and then going back to sleep. I think it was God's love, He showed me what He has for me. Peace beyound anything I could ever hope for. That's all I want. My life has never been peaceful, it has been filled with turmoil and chaos. God is my refuge, my rock, my peace! He showed it to me!

I had this vision/dream after I prayed over having to go car shopping. Some people are afraid of flying and I just can't understand that. I have a fear of major purchases.....it cripples me. So I prayed and prayed over this purchase. I asked God to have the sales person He wanted to help me be the one I talked to. I prayed over the people who would deal with the financing too. He worked it all out for me. I was driving home in my new car in less than 4 hours! I still can't believe it's mine....well it's the finance companies until I get it paid for but you know what I mean!

GOD IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

A Baby Made My Day!

I have been kinda down lately. I really get lonely at times and yearn for a good husband, key word "good"! :)

There is a kid at work (he is 24-keep in mind my sons are 30 & 28) that professed a crush he has had on me for a few years now! It just totally made my day! He was so nervous to tell me, he kept putting his head down and would raise it every few seconds to make sure no one was hearing his words but me. I invited him to my church a few months back and he has been going but it's such a big church that I don't even know he's there until I see him at work and ask if he went. He started the conversation by talking about church and then he said. "Why don't you do your eyes for work like you do for church?" (meaning make up) and I said "Are you kidding? I'm not trying to impress anyone around here." and he said "You have the most beautiful eyes. When I see you at church I am like 'dang, she is so pretty'." I was shocked! He went on to tell me that he has liked me since the first time he saw me and he doesn't understand why I am single. He said "You don't have any idea how beautiful you are do you?" and I said "No, I am just average." and he asked why I would say that. I told him because I am fat, and if I were so beautiful why don't any men at church ever talk to me. I have been going there for over a year now and not one man has approached me. He said that he didn't know why and that they must all be crazy! I thanked him and told him how sweet I think he is, how he made my day, and how much I appreciate his kind words. I also told him if I were 10 years younger that we might work something out. He just smiled!

It's wonderful how God knows when you need that little boost to your self-esteem. This young man gave me hope that I will find an older man who admires me like he does and I will get that fairy-tale happiness I so desire! I am looking for a needle in a haystack. The man for me HAS TO KNOW GOD, FEAR GOD, LOVE GOD, and SERVE GOD......EVERYDAY OF HIS LIFE! No exceptions! He has to be able to love me as Christ loved the church and know the true Biblical order of things, be able to cover me with prayer, and allow me to be his true help-meet as God orders in His word. There is a blog that I read here and this couple has this down to a t! He provides and she uses those resources to make a home for them and their 3 kids! It makes me smile to read her posts about her life. She is so humble about it and acts like she was just blessed. She truly is a Proverbs 31 woman and I admire her for that. It is my desire to be that Proverbs 31 woman too. I just need my Proverbs 31 man! :) I will trust in God to bring him to me in my season!

Life is Sweet!

Rude People

I went to get the "do" done today! Cut and color...my youth has been restored. YEAH! Another customer came in while I was there and had scheduled a cut and color before she came in with my hairdresser, Pannee. The shop is run by the owner and she is the only one who does hair there....hence, only one chair! This other customer changes her mind and only wants a cut because all she has is $20 and can't afford the color...ummm, excuse me but why did you ask for color if all you have is $20? This is 2008 you know!

Anyway, that throws Pannee off schedule. She planned to cut my hair while the color processed on Miss Thang. She cuts Miss Thang's hair and then calls me back in. I sit in the chair and Miss Thang is in the mirror using the flat iron on her hair. Remember this is a one woman shop and is very, very small. She is almost hitting me in the head with her elbows while she is messing with the flat iron. I wanted to put the flat iron where the sun don't shine!! She keeps asking Pannee to "look at it now" and had Pannee quit cutting my hair 3 times to "take just a chunk off here". I was ready to choke her! Finally, Pannee, told her "I told you you have to come back if you not like the cut. I have to finish this customer hair now." YEAH, PANNEE!!!

Miss Thang was of middle-eastern descent and I have found that almost always they are rude people. Never in a million years would I have expected someone to cut and color my hair for $20 and then taken the hairdressers time from another customer to focus on me. RUDE, RUDE, RUDE!!!!!!!! I guess it's just the culture that makes them that way. Maybe they dont' see it as rude but in America we do. I try not to stereotype people but when stuff like this happens it's hard not to!