What a week!

I have been on this high for the past three days now. I have just felt God with me and seen Him working in my life in such a strong way. I just feel so blessed.

I look around me at friends and family and I realize that there are so many people who are hurting and that there is pain and sickness around every corner. I also realize that any day it could be me suffering.

And yet at the same time, I have a renewed sense of peace that if tomorrow my circumstances change, I know that as a child of God, I am still blessed beyond measure.

Let me share of bit of my blessing--

This is the first week of my new job as a Mary Kay consultant. I didn't want to get my hopes up about what the week would bring. I simply wanted to do my part. I scheduled a facial for every day so that I could be practicing on my friends and get the hang of it all.

I have had people call without me even talking to them about Mary Kay, I was given a name of someone who might want to sign up as a consultant, I have had chances to put my name out there in several ways that I never went looking for, and I have had a number of orders! It has been far more than I ever would have guessed on Monday morning!

Then there is the fact that last Friday I was given a financial gift in the form of a gas card and a Wal-mart card that has been a huge help to us this week. I have been able to get a few odds and ends that I needed that I was just waiting on because it just wasn't in the budget at the moment.

Then I took in some change that I had been collecting over the summer and it was enough to get Jake a just because gift tonight and a new pair of shoes that I didn't have to have today, but needed soon. And we went out to dinner.

Mark is gone this week and for no reason at all he called just to say he loves me. It is not that he never tells me that,but he is very focused, and when he is working he rarely has the time to stop and call just to talk. It meant so much--and I know it was from God.

I was talking with a friend yesterday and when she found out Mark is gone she asked if Jake could come and spend some time with them on Saturday so I could have a few hours all to myself. That rarely happens--I am not sure what to do with time alone!

It is just a series of seemingly small things that add up to an amazing gift from God for me this week. So I consider myself blessed!