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I love the phrases in the scriptures involving the Lord pouring blessings upon us.  Something about that image makes me smile. 

Malachi 3:10 says:

Bring ye all the ^atithes into the storehouse, that there may be ^bmeat in mine house, and ^cprove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not ^dopen you the ^ewindows of heaven, and pour you out a ^fblessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

This has been one of our harder months financially since we made the decision to bite the bullet and head to Utah to see my in-laws after 3 1/2 years.  I felt that the Lord was telling me everything was going to be OK.  Logically, I didn’t see how, but I went with that whispering of the Spirit.  Between sickness, being out of town, and more sickness, we had three months worth of tithing that still needed to be paid.  It made me cringe a bit writing that check, but I see it as the Lord’s money – not mine.  I still felt we would be taken care of.

Thursday night was the start of my husband’s on-call schedule at work (doing maintenance).  He usually gets a decent amount of overtime while on-call, but as of Monday night, he already had 41 hours of on-call pay, which is overtime pay, and he still had two more full days to go.   Because he traded schedules with someone, he will be on-call twice this month.  I had been pretty worried about dipping into savings to buy groceries (which we’re trying to keep for moving expenses), but it looks like the next payday will help us cover the extra costs from our travel, plus van repairs that we need.

Two days after we got back from Utah, my father-in-law e-mailed to say he had a serious heart condition that would require a pace maker.  If we hadn’t just spent two weeks with him, I would have been panicking over the fact that we hadn’t seen him in so long.  I’m so grateful we had the courage to make the trip. 

I think a lot of people identify monetary blessings with tithing, but I think it’s more than that.  I was having a hard day and a friend called inviting me to go piano shopping with her.  Other blessings I had today:

My visiting teachers came over for the first time since they were put on my route.  We had a wonderful, uplifting visit and one of them offered to bring us dinner tonight just because!  It was so helpful because I was trying to declutter today and I was able to continue doing so.  It made my day less hectic and I was able to spend time at my son’s Cub Scout activity too.

When we got home, a neighbor on the third floor asked us if we wanted a couple boxes of food because he was moving to Germany.  What a blessing!  We recently tossed a bunch of food due to weevils.

I now have nine potential piano students that I wasn’t even looking for!  People are begging me to teach their kids and a couple moms want lessons too.  I feel like I am being blessed with some scheduling ideas to make that possible.  Not only would this be a financial blessing, it would enrich my life.

I am so grateful for the ways the Lord has blessed me this week.

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