YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SAVIOR

Well the new year has finally arrived! All the yelling and cheering is over and it is time to get back to "reality". Ugh.

I must say that the Holiday Season was very different for us than ever before. We love to participate in charities that help others have a better Christmas. For them and their children. This year, WE were our own charity.

It is so weird to even talk about it out loud. There is joy, overwhelm, embarrassment and even a little shame. I guess I never saw myself as a "have not".

I have to say that we do HAVE a lot because we still have our health, our Family and our Friends. For me, that is what has always mattered.

There are so many people out of work, alone, in bad health, etc. How does our Father in heaven do it all? Because He is AMAZING and mighty! I had never before experienced His amazing power so much at one time in my life before now.

Little did I know that there was to be a huge lesson for me in all of this. I have always had a hard time asking for help. But this was different, my Boy's were in need too.

Whenever I watch Holiday movies, I cry at the Spirit of Christmas in all the endings and how wonderful people can be. This year I LIVED the Spirit of Christmas and cried at how wonderful people are.

With Eddie out of work and his disability ending, there looked like there was no hope in sight. He applied for unemployment in early December but with the Holiday's and how slow they are, anyway, well you know.

I ended up calling one of my pastor's to talk and get some spiritual guidance.
Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. Proverbs 19:20

It was hard to tell him everything, but I did. He was so kind and told me to talk to the elders of our church. So I did. Believe me when I tell you that I got to a point where I did not know how to keep everyone fed since the money was going out and there was none coming in. A few days later we received a gift card for food from them. In the past month or so we have had 2 total from them. It was just the best thing we could have ever received. That meant that I knew my kids would eat and have the basics for their day to day meals met.

The next thing that happened was my dear friend Trish asked me to come over one day and go Christmas "shopping" through all the items she had bought throughout the year in various places. She LOVES to garage sale and finds just the most incredible things! Brand new in the box, clothes with the tags still on them, on and on it goes. A few days earlier my boy's wrote out their Christmas list. They put checks next to the ones they really really wanted. For some reason I had that list in my purse? I do not know why because I had no money to shop with??? LOL

In the LARGE group of items she laid out for me to chose from there they were. Two of the checked marked items Dante wanted and a couple that Jake wanted. I just sat down in a chair stunned. How do these things happen?

A few days later a friend of mine came over and gave me 4 gift cards from Target and told me to go shop for my boy's. Then I received an anonymous envelope with money in it. From the first day of December right up to the day after Christmas, friends were dropping by with gifts for my boys and cash for us. It was like I had fallen into the movie "It's A Wonderful Life". Believe me when I tell you that that movie this year had a whole new meaning for me.

We were given food for Christmas eve dinner and for Christmas day too. All of the cash we received we put away towards January's rent. On January 1st we had what we needed to pay our rent! Praise God!!!

Although Eddie is still out of work, we continue to trust our Lord and Savior with our lives and the lives of our children. We cannot thank Him or you enough for the love and support we have received. I pray that we NEVER have to go through anything like this again. I pray that Eddie finds good solid work soon as unemployment is not quite enough.......

Through all of this I know today that yes there is a Savior, yes He loves me dearly, yes he will NEVER leave me or forsake me and yes, I AM His.

I pray for all of you that this year will be the very best you have ever had in Christ.

Amen