Honesty

I am going to be very honest in this post (eek!). Things here have been...hard. To say the least. Real Estate has been non-existant, and Cameron's music pastor job is very part time. So put all that together and you see the financial struggle we have been in. Y'all. It is HARD to change. We (and I really mean *I*) are used to shopping. To picking up bargain things. To eating out for lunch on occasion. I now have to say no. And it sucks!! BUT. The point of this honesty is to share with you how our Father provides in the most amazing albeit unusual ways. Last week we had a visitor stop by and pass a couple hundred to Cam for "Valentine's Day". Then my uncle called me two days later (he hasn't called me in almost 8 years! We talk when we see each other, but it isn't a close phone call type of relationship, although I wish it were and I should probably change that...). Anyway, he owns a Sonic and had 1000 coupons for free food. He shipped them all to me. 1000! THEN, yesterday, a letter of encouragement came in the mail with another fifty bucks in it! This is what has happened just in the last week. He has been providing like this for a couple months now. It is very hard for me to accept "gifts" like money. It makes me feel bad and humbles me very quickly when I must accept them out of need. But let me tell you! God provides. And He does it in a very creative, in His own timing kind of way. I feel soooo blessed to see Him loving on us like this. Just awesome.