Awesome Stuff God Has Done - Stove

[Approx. Date] February 2009: I got a new refrigerator in January 2009 after mine died.  Since it was stainless steel-look/black I wanted to get new appliances to match.  I knew that I could not afford new appliances at this time, but I glanced to look through craigslist to see what was listed.  I saw that a stove “glass top, stainless steel” was listed.  I thought to myself that it was highly unlikely that anyone would sell a really nice stove – since a stove is one of things you keep until it breaks or is totally out of style.  I did email the lady and requested pics – she said she would have it out at her yard sale tomorrow.  I thought to myself that I was not going to get up that early in the morning to go look at a stupid stove that would surely never match or work for me.  I had been convicted about purchasing too quickly off craigslist (XBOX) so I prayed that if God wanted me to go to the yard sale that he would wake me up early enough to go.  (I never get up before 9 a.m. on Saturday and the yard sale started at 8 a.m.)  The next morning the XBOX repairman called me at 7:25 a.m. so then I felt *obligated* to go to this yard sale, knowing what I had prayed the night before.  I went, not thinking that the stove would work, and lo and behold it was THE VERY stove that I had picked out on Lowe’s as the stove that I would want.  It was the brand and color of my refrigerator.  I got a $598 stove for $175!!  So amazing.   ~ (To make things a little weirder, the woman having the yard sale had purchased two pictures from me off craigslist the previous week, but we didn’t realize when we were emailing about the stove that it was the very same woman!)

2009 update (imported from Myspace)

I haven't blogged in an extremely long time. Either that means I haven't needed to let off stress (unlikely) or it means that there has been too much to do to allow me the free time to indulge! We are loving our new church - Bethel Baptist in Dothan. It's a full-time youth position, whereas before Andy was Music/Youth full-time. It's funny though - he does as much music now than he did before. Although we miss a few friends at the old church, overall this is a much better fit for us and we have total peace that it was a God-thing. Hard for me to believe, but we have already been there nearly nine months. I am grateful to be through with school for now - I finally finished in October. I love to learn and I enjoy the discipline that school forces me to develop, but it's nice to have some time to be involved in Andy's ministry, clean the house (::gasp::) and try to just live a little versus existing in a constant state of chaos and stress. I'd love to go on to law school, which was the plan when I went back, but school loans being what they ALREADY are, I hate to add more to them. Plus, the drive to Montgomery daily would be a killer.....I may reconsider later on down the road. There's no doubt that I do NOT want to be working in this same capacity in ten years. But hey, we'll cross that bridge a little way down the road. It's vastly more important that Andy be able to afford to finish his masters right now.We're going on an awesome trip to the Grand Canyon/Las Vegas in May - I am beyond pumped about it! It's been a year since we took a "real" trip and I am ready to go! I got a killer deal offline (I surprised even myself this time) and so we are going to be able to fly out and stay five nights for what a stupid cruise would have cost. Probably less than the stupid cruise. The deal even came with two free tickets to a Cirque de Soleil show, so I am excited about that too.Otherwise, life is good. Which equates that it is just normal - you do the same thing everyday and somehow, that's alright....even fun.