UNBELIEVABLE

The title is simply for lack of a better, more awesome word for Him! He truly makes it impossible to not believe in Him sometimes!!!

Just to give you a tiny idea of our lives right now...Chris and I are not sure how we will make it financially past next month. As it looks now, we will be through our Savings by the end of September! Now, I do NOT tell you this to make you feel sorry for us, but just to make you see how very big of a deal this is...I was just notified that I will be receiving a $0.50/hour raise. Not only is this HUGE, BUT the raise is also retroactive back to July 1st, so JUST when we needed a lil extra money the VERY MOST, the Lord provided this!

Just had tears in my eyes as I found out and wanted to share with all of you yet another example of His love and faithfulness in our lives! Chris and I have always felt peace about our seemingly-bleak financial situation, but He has always provided in the past AND especially now, we have faith He will continue to do so!

Love you all!!!!!!

We serve a God of miracles!

Ok, so this morning I just had to give Him all the glory...on Sat eve, Chris did a wedding video. He went alone, because it was only a one-camera shoot. When he got home that night, I was in the middle of laundry, so I threw his pants he'd been wearing into the wash. I checked the front two pockets and then asked him if I needed to check the others, since they were cargo pants, and he said no. I have gotten into the habit of asking because we have washed several tubes of chapstick!!! Anyways, after the wash was done, and I was emptying everything into the dryer, I found a TAPE at the bottom of the washer! If you're making the connection....this was the tape of the ceremony he just filmed! Chris was devastated! I felt soooo horrible and was so mad at myself for not checking all the pockets in his pants anyways AND for rushing to get his pants in the laundry! Chris felt so stupid for leaving the tape in there and not remembering it! Anyways, the list of all the horrible things we felt goes on and on. BUT as soon as I found that tape and realized what it was, I started praying! And I encouraged Chris to do the same, even though it was very hard for him not to just be sooooo mad at himself! I also encouraged him to just leave the tape to dry overnight and just "deal" with it in the morning. So, we both prayed all night long, to the extent that once we turned the lights out, I could truly feel the Lord's presence in our bedroom! Yes, I prayed for a miracle that the tape would be okay, but I also prayed that if it wasn't, He'd give us both the peace and wisdom to know what to do and where to go from there. And as soon as I woke up that morning, I started praying! Then we both got up, had some coffee, etc, and our Father, the miracle worker, who cares about even the smallest things, like a wedding tape for Chris' biz, answered our prayers, and the tape is fine!!!!!!! I truly cannot express to you the joy and the unexplainable humility and love that comes over me even as I retell this story! I realize that there are people out there, even Christians, that'll say this was NOT a miracle but just luck and good fortune. And it's totally fine if you believe that, but I know with all of my heart, that the Lord worked a miracle in our lives and on our behalf that evening and that as we slept, He was restoring that tape! So, as I said, I simply had to give Him all the praise and glory and honor that is due Him, not only for this miracle that might seem small but was HUGE to us and Chris' biz and thus our livelihood, but because He loves each one of us so much that He even cares about such things, big and small, in our lives!
Sorry if I started rambling, and thx for hanging in there with me for yet another all-text post! Love you all and hope He works miracles (small and big) in your life this week!!!

Sorry!!!!

I seriously have no idea where the month of July went, but I am so sorry that it has been over a month since my last post. Unfortunately I still do not have pictures to add to this post, either!!! :(

Just wanted to update you real quick on a couple of things...
I have my annual review at work on Thursday. I cannot believe I have been here for 2 whole years as of July...wow! I am liking it okay. Mostly, I am just happy to have a job in this horrible economy, and everyday I am trying to view my job more and more as my mission field. That change of attitude has definitely helped my perspective on having to go to work every day! Anyways, the past 2 reviews did not go all that well for me (i.e. last year is when they told me they were thinking about getting rid of my job or cutting my hours), so if you could just be praying over that time with my immediate boss, Veronica, over my feelings (and Chris') post-review - no matter what happens, and just for a peace during and leading up to the review.

In two weeks, Chris will have a wedding every weekend for 3 consecutive weeks! Other than that, though, the biz and all "extra" stuff he has done in the past is pretty slow, so you could definitely keep praying over this.

Patti is doing pretty good. She is down to ONE LAST CHEMO TREATMENT, which'll be next Wed - PRAISE GOD! And tho it looked bleak at first, this last half of treatments hasn't been TOO BAD. Her surgery is scheduled for Sept 21st and then she'll have several months of going back in every couple of months for the breast reconstruction. But as of about March or April of next year, she should be (Lord-willing) cancer-free and completely done with all of this and bad to "normal." As far as the gene thing goes, though, we really don't know much else, so nothing new has happned on that front with Jen or Chris.

I guess that is about it, for now. Thank you so much for bearing with me and my monthly (or less) posts and my pictureless, long posts!!!! I love you all so very much and am truly blessed to have people in my life who have a common love for the Lord and who I can count on to pray with me! PLEASE let me know how you're doing and what I can be praying for, specifically, for you!!!

Hol