Special Blessings

This whole summer has been quite the challenge. Trent lost his unemployment benefits in May and Laurie is off from school for the summer which made making ends meet alot more difficult. Then you throw in a few car problems and a trip to Utah and now it feels like I can never pull out of it. It feels like a nose dive straight to the ground. Well I almost crashed and burned this week. I have tried so hard to keep it together all summer and then it caught up with me. This last week I looked at my bank account and we were already broke and out of money. Payday was still five days away. I do have some money put away in a IRA account but I need to keep that in case of a true emergency. Anyway I thought I was done for. An idea was that I could get a pay advance from my boss to help carry me through. My boss is a good man and I have come to appreciate him very much. He has given me a chance for work when he didn't have to. He has been one of those special blessings.

The other blessing came this way. As I said I was going to ask him for an advance. I went to his home and gave him my paperwork and was just getting ready to ask when he said, "guess what my a/c went out in my house." I thought that was bad because I know how expensive it is to repair them. Then my boss said that both of his a/c units froze up. Oh my gosh! How can this be happening! When things go down hill, they go down hill!! After hearing that I felt so bad for him that I thought I cant ask him for an advance, he needs the money to pay for the a/c repairs.

Driving home I was almost in tears. I felt absolutely whipped! I was thinking what am I going to do now. I thought for a minute and said a little prayer and ask the Lord for a little help. We only needed like $250.00 dollars to make to Thursday. I got home and went to the mailbox and found my second special blessing. Inside was a check from Trent's unemployment benefits for $256.00! WOW! What a relief! With that check I can make to Thursday and then payday. Soon Laurie will be going back to work and along with Trent's work money I think we can get back on our feet. I know that this is a start but it brings hope. I need that hope so much right now so that I can make to the next day and the next. I know that there is some big struggles ahead of me and with the Lords help I can work through them. I do know that the Lord is there helping me and supporting me the best that He can. Otherwise I would have lost it long ago.

For those of you reading, don't give up hope. It does come along when you least expect it. Until next time, keep smiling!