Passionate Homemaking

I have wit­nessed God’s faith­ful­ness in sev­eral areas lately of which I am over­whelmed with thank­ful­ness. He is the Great Provider of all our needs! As Kris­ten so faith­fully reminded me, with a quote by Debi Pearl, “Thankfulness is how we think; joy is the abun­dance it produces.” Joy for the jour­ney to com­plete all the tasks of life, to manage my home, to serve my hus­band, to keep my eyes on the Lord, all comes from a thank­ful heart, a mind that is fill­ing its thoughts with thankfulness.

1. Car Provisions

This past Thurs­day my hus­band was prepar­ing to depart for the com­put­ers & mis­sions con­fer­ence. He was to leave at 12:30 am (Friday) for a lovely red-​eye flight (hey it was cheap!). We are dri­ving around in our little red Subaru wagon, when we hear the lovely sound of brakes grind­ing against the pads…well, that is to say that pads are gone…which makes the hor­ri­ble noise! He’s leav­ing tonight, what are we to do, it’s our only car, and this is a prob­lem. We call around..no shops have open­ings. We call a family friend. He is gra­cious enough to slip us in, due to the emer­gency situation.

Not only was he so gra­cious to solve our prob­lem, he also extended him­self to solve another ail­ment that had been lin­ger­ing for awhile. Our starter has been fail­ing over the last few years, and we have often not been able to start the car (boy do I have some sto­ries!). He replaced our brake pads and our starter and would not let us pay the bill. His gen­eros­ity was so over­whelm­ing! He told us it was his way of sup­port­ing us and the direc­tion God is call­ing us. God is so good!

2. A new flight

The Lord had already pro­vided the resources to cover the flight and con­fer­ence, so we knew God wanted him to attend this con­fer­ence. It is 7:00pm in the evening, the phone rings, Aaron’s flight is can­celed. He waits on the phone for over a hour trying to talk with some­one. Finally, we decide the best thing to do is just go to the air­port. We lay Karis down to bed at my brother’s house, and drive to the air­port together. I drop the hus­band off at the gate, and pro­ceed to park the vehi­cle. Low and behold, before I even entered the air­port, Aaron has man­aged to get a new flight and to top it off it was a better flight to boot! He departed at 10:30 instead of 12:30 and arrived ear­lier as well. Praise the Lord! He def­i­nitely wanted Aaron to go.

3. My hubby is coming home!

Last but not least…I am so thank­ful that my hubby is coming home tonight! Absence makes the heart grow fonder indeed, but there is only so much I can handle. Actu­ally, it has been a refresh­ing week­end for Karis and I. We spent a lot of time with my family, which was a joy! I am so thank­ful for Skype (a free online tele­phone system), through which I was able to talk with Aaron via video through­out the past 5 days. What a huge bless­ing! Being apart makes we real­ize to a greater extend what a won­der­ful gift my hus­band is to me. How unde­serv­ing I am of his love for me! He so faith­fully seeks to pro­vide for us, pro­tect, and lead us in the Word.

What are you thank­ful for today? Increase your joy today by reflect­ing on what God has done for you!

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