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I just need to unwind, so here we go!

My life is pretty darn good. Honestly I shouldn't complain ( I will but I shouldn't). :). I sure love our new church. We're still in a honeymoon phase of sorts I guess, but hey bring it on, we'll ride that wave as long as we can! Truly, the people are sweet, God has richly blessed this tiny little church - when they decided to FINALLY interview us, and remember we were LAST on their list, and they accepted us and took it to a church vote the main problem for them was money. In fact they low-balled us the first time. I actually remember laughing out loud at the number, I digress, so we said yes and trusted God would provide. The parsonage hasn't had any work done to it in oh I'm guessin well let's say YEARS! WE're talkin lime green kitchen cabinets, lime green 70's linoleum, rust colored carpet, lime green bathroom, it's got a salmon pink cast iron bath tub and HAD a funky green toilet. Get the picture? UGLY. Needed some T.L.C. to say the least. The board knew it needed work but financially couldn't do it all at once. I requested paint, new carpet and vinyl flooring, a new toilet, (I wanted a new tub but it turns out that's just not in the cards, those babies are spendy to replace let alone take out, but hey a girl can dream right?),a sliding glass door to the backyard because currently there is no access to the backyard except by our carport and I'm just not ok with no visibility to the kids while they are playing, and a fence (we live on a BUSY street).Ok so that's some dough right. And what did God do? Supply. Through the generous donations randomly given to the church, 2,000 here, 3,000 here, etc. we haven't had to take out a loan, and we've done - all new flooring, paint, we will pay cash for the fence and sliding door AND with no loan. How stinkin cool is that anyway? Also, we sat down and well I made Jas talk to me about our money situation cause I HATE not knowing where it's all going and such, and we're doing ok. Which leads to...
So I lead worship at a small youth conference this last weekend and the speaker was talking about how we can be everyday hero's. Anyway, he mentioned he did a little game with God, where he TRIED to out give God. He said he told God that for 3 months anything he had for discretionary income which at the time was minimal he would give half away. He said all the sudden he was getting checks in the mail, a sizable tax return he couldn't explain, and on it goes. He said he had more fun walking up to someone he didn't even like and saying " God has blessed me, so I want to bless you" and just walked away. He said one time he heard this guy run in the house yelling at his wife cause they were just BROKE and he gave him a decent amount of money. So I'm mullin this one over. This is right up my alley, so I'm going to challenge Jas to see which one of us can give more away over the next few months. Now naysayers may say " Uh you have an adoption loan to pay off" or " You don't make a lot of money, you should save what you earn" But well here's what I think about that.... ok I can't think of anything nice to say but Dream on comes to mind. I'm just excited to be apart of a blessing. I feel overly blessed and want to extend that to unsuspecting people. Stay tuned for the updates!

Ok well I gotta blog later cause I really should be preparing dinner for friends coming over so yeah... I'll post more later.

Oh and I'll post some new pics of Jas and I when I get them. Oh man my friend Sam is beyond talented, she even made us look good! HA! More to come on that too...

Peace out, may you find ways to richly bless those around you!