Yesterday

What a busy day, for a Thursday anyway. Usually our busiest days are in the beginning of the week and then the weekend. But Jason had worked so late on Wednesday that the boys only got to see him for about 30 minutes before they had to go to bed so I promised them we'd go to watch Seb's friend play baseball after school on Thursday.

My car was in the shop so we were running errands in Jason's dad's truck and then finally got a chance to pick up my car after Seb got out of school. We dropped off the truck, hopped in the car and drove across town for a few innings of Seb's friend's game before it got too cold to stay out.

After finishing errands and grabbing some dinner to go we headed home, passing by this woman sitting on the sidewalk behind the grocery store. I noticed her hair, wrapped up like I've seen so many other ladies do...I've always liked that look. She was holding a sign and as we drove by I looked over to see what it said but we drove by too fast and I couldn't see the whole thing. The only thing I could see what the words "Praying for..." and instantly I felt something inside. I told Jason "We need to go back! Maybe we should give her our food."

Now although Jason is an amazing man of God he is still afraid to trust in the area of finances, which is pretty common for a lot of people. We don't have loads of money but when it comes to trusting God with providing for us I'm "insanely" confident that everything will be okay. So I managed to convince Jason to turn around, using my kids as the bait...If we don't live our lives as an example how can we expect them to?

So we turned around and gave her the only thing I had in my wallet, the last of my cash. It felt great! Sebastian said that he hoped she'd go into the store and buy something for herself to eat and I just love that he thought that for her. At dinner we prayed for her and everyone else going through this hard economy. It really is so humbling to look around at all the people, even just in our community, and how much they're struggling right now and to feel like even though things are tough for us we're just so blessed with what we do have. And everyday we get to decide if we'll make the choice to live as an example.

Her sign read "Praying for a Miracle".