OK, so another grumpy day, but let me tell you about it. But first a little something about yesterday. Yesterday was great. I went to my sister's place and we went shopping and I got my laundry done. Plus she really cheered me up after having an extremely stressful week. On the downside, Andre worked until 6 yesterday, but he got today off! So now for the scoop on today.
I woke up at an early 7am to an unruly teething baby. Needless to say I wasn't too keen on getting up, (I like my beauty sleep, thanks) tending to baby, making breakfast, getting ready for church, etc, etc. . .
Sometimes all I feel like I ever do is work. Well when we did eventually got to church we sat by an extremely sweet lady who was kind enough to let baby girl play with her and get in her purse while I had a bit of a melt down. Thank God for angels. So then it was on to primary and surprisingly enough I had three really good kids today. They were all really sweet. When church finally got out, baby girl and I were both starving and unfortunately, Andre had a meeting for his calling. So I went home without him. By this time I was just getting more and more cranky but God gives us all tender mercies. This one happened to take the form of two very sweet home teachers. I simply felt loved because they just came over and sat and talked with us. It was just nice to know that they care. When they left, God still wasn't through with His quiet tender mercies. I then got phone calls from both my mom, my sister, and my granny. So you think that after all that I would be feeling a lot happier, right? Nope. I wasn't as grumpy but I was still feeling a little disgruntled. So His final tender mercy came from my sweet sweet husband. He sat me down and we talked. We talked about today, what we learned, we talked about what was going on, what was going to happen within the next couple weeks. Now let me backpedal a couple of paces and tell you why I was so upset: 1) we have been having a lot of financial difficulties, 2) Andre has to work 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week for the next 3 weeks (maybe it might be longer), and 3) because of all said above, I was feeling really angry with God. I was feeling angry with Him because I felt like He should be blessing us. Hey, we've been paying our tithes and fasts, we've been being obedient to the best of our abilities, we've been kind, we've been serving others, so where were the promised blessings? Does He not promise us that He will pour out the blessings of heaven that there will not be room enough to receive it? That's how I was feeling: just angry. So Andre turns to me and simply says "If you feel so angry with Him, why don't you get on your knees and tell Him?" That's it. That's what it took to make me feel happy again. The biggest reason why that struck me so hard is because I know that God hears and answers prayers; and I know that He hears and answers my prayers and I knew He would hear me. That's why I felt so relieved and so much better: because that knowledge gave me hope! Anyways, I love you all! ttyl
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