GOD DOES BIG THINGS!

Last night I received an email from a store that I worked at for the past two-ish months. They are a tutoring community for kids. They specialize in languages.

The Backstory: I originally took the job to meet kids and to get to practice my French. I worked for them for a little while and really enjoyed it. As my time there was winding to a close, they began to hit road blocks. They were shutdown for a few weeks because someone had made a mistake in their childcare documentation. When they finally got the paperwork straightened out, most of their students had been put into public schools. (They run a multilingual schooling system) Only 20% of their students returned! Needless to say, they are now having major financial issues.

The Email: The email came late last night and it explained the owners distress and great sadness at not being able to pay her employees for the month. The company just didn't have enough money to do so. You could read the sadness in every word on the page. It broke my heart.

Our Thoughts: As Luke and I already have a full time job, we thought, "We don't need the money, and they need it more than we do" We thought about it and decided to just tell them to not pay us for the two months that I had worked. We figured they could use the money more than we could. I sent her an email before I went to bed, but didn't really know what would come of it.

The Lord's Bigger Plan: Today as I sat down at my computer and opened my email there was a response from the director of the school. As I read the email I began to cry (out of joy) about how the Lord used this situation in a way I never expected.

Part of the Letter: "I don’t have words to express how humble I am of receiving your email. When I received your email it made me understand how big God is and how I should follow your example. You have given me a huge lesson in life. After receiving the email I had to go home and I just wanted to talk to God and understand how huge he is. I had to let go of all the pain, resentment, confusion, stress and uncertainty that I have carried in my heart since this huge mess started. With this said, last night I was able to see the light, I see that nothing is impossible if you have God on your side."


I am so humbled by what GOD does! My intentions for my time here and His intentions for my time here looked drastically different! The Lord's faithfulness to His people astounds me. Even in what seems to this woman as a scary and uncertain time... the Lord is doing cool things around her. HE LOVES HER SO MUCH... and he will not let her get away from Him.... So glad that He is in control!

Twenty Days In....

After what seems like forever since I last wrote, my endeavor to serve my husband seems like it's not going so well. Let me break it down for you:

The first couple days were great! I would make him coffee and all that jazz and feel good about it. He didn't have to do anything in return cause "I was serving HIM" for these next 40 days. Then it happened... I got the stomach bug. I asked myself every morning, HOW DO I SERVE MY HUSBAND WHILE LYING IN BED FEELING LIKE I'M GOING TO THROW UP!!! Maybe the answer was not being my needy sick self, but thought if I don't tell him what I need, then I might not get better. He ended up doing more serving that week than I did.

I feel like this lesson has landed squarely in a place I never expected it to. As I am competitive, this has been a fight to the finish. Luke starts doing his major serving when he notices you serving him. So for the last 20 days (not including my sick days) I have felt out-served everyday. Because of my competitiveness, that frustrated me at first! I though, I must be doing something wrong. Then it hit me... isn't this what a marriage is all about. Serving each other to the fullest? Luke was just doing what any good husband would do... he was serving me in the best way he could. What a wonderful conundrum to be in.

So, for the next 20 days, my strategy is this: Well, I don't really have one... other than to serve and love on my husband in any way that I can... maybe i will learn another simple but great lesson like I learned this past week! Here we go...