AN UNEXPECTED HELP
When I got home, I talked with my husband about what all I spent along with the amount of money that I started out with and what I had left over. After doing some math calculations, we realized that I was $40 short. Yes, FORTY DOLLARS! To some that is chump change, but to those who might be living on a tight budget with one income, that's a lot of money!
After talking about the money - me, mostly fussing about it. I continued on with my rant about how we really needed that money for some things that we needed. My easy-going husband (I love him; we are opposites) said, "Someone that needed that money probably found it, for me not to worry about." My selfishness piped up with, "I hope whoever found it REALLY DESERVES it because we need that money!" My husband lying on the sofa at that time sat up and said, "What do we really need? What are we doing without?” After giving him a list of things he asked, "Do we really need any of that?" I sat down and thought about what he said. No, we really didn't need those things. We've lived without them for several months and could continue to do so.
While I swept the kitchen floor one last time for the night, I was still thinking and stewing about the money. The next thing I knew the Lord brought to my remembrance the $10 my husband found in the grocery store parking lot the week before, the $20 my Mom found in the JC Penney's parking lot and handed to me several months earlier, and the $10 Jamie and I found on the road, while taking an afternoon stroll; all of which totaled $40. The Lord also showed me that someone else lost that money so my family could be blessed. When I told my husband about it, he also reminded me of the $100 that he found under his delivery truck in the parking lot of a store. That was a total of $140 that we were blessed with and someone else more than likely had to lose.
Sometimes unexpected help is hard to accept
when you are the unknowingly giver.
The Lord uses people and situations that are not comfortable to bless someone else in need. I've learned a valuable lesson about this: money is not even ours, it all belongs to the Lord. While I thought we needed the money, there was someone in worse financial shape than we were. If the Lord wants to use His money He gave us to bless someone else, it really is okay with me. I pray that whoever found the money will know that the Lord allowed it to happen, not me.
Hurray!!
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Thank you so much Lori.
Fantastic testimony ! Reminds of the post I wrote here
http://purposefulandmeaningful.blogspot.com/2015/07/god-still-sends-ravens.html
I am grateful God showed up in your home.
Many Blessings to you
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It is a Blessing to help others even when we are in need our selves! thanks Lori.
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Thanks for reading, Momma.
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ReplyDeleteI love how God works all things so uniquely together to grow us!
Blessings and big smiles,
Lori
I love how he works everything out also, Lori. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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