Praise The Lord!!!!!!

I am a very happy carrie right now. My day started out as below average- with a headache of the sort that numbs your thoughts and blocks your peripheral vision in one eye, but I still had to go to work- where children are loud and cranky because its the last day of school. But the Lord met my needs by giving me relatively calm children and having them almost all sleep for a good while during nap time. I also got some stuff done that I needed to do for the summer program, and got over my procrastination, and I had a really good talk with Lisa about some of the questions that I've been having. Best of all with the summer program, I get to use the brand-spanking new, air conditioned school for a lot of the time- something I thought I'd have to wait until fall to do. I get to stake my claim on my room now, and have it all ready in advance for next year. I also was feeling cranky because of money concerns and the usual junk that likes to pick at my brain, but after some prayer and checking my finances again, things are looking better than I was originally anticipating. I also talked to Meagan at nap time and she helped me feel better about my situation, and that she is in a similar situation. It helps to have someone be in the mud with you when you're sitting on the ground.

I'm also praising God because I'm getting to seek my CDA, and this will give me greater job security and the possibility of benfits and the like, which will be a big blessing. My parents are willing to put up the money and I can still seek a scholarship that will pay for the majority of my parent's cost. Also, the program that I'm going to be in will be primarily online, which will allow me to work at my own pace, and also still take college classes, and pursue my english degree at the same time. And to top it all off, the program GIVES you a new desktop computer to do your coursework on! I'm sure that it's not the BEST computer in the planet, but if it is new, it must have at least some features that will be useful. I'm considering taking it to work, and putting it in the yellow room, which would be a big blessing, because then I can do some planning things during free play, and next year I'd be able to do a lot during my planning time between preschool classes.

The really big news though, is that we have a BUILDING FOR THE RIVER!!!! I feel sooooo blessed, because I just assumed that it could be forever and a day till we had a home of our own. We have put a down payment on the Threads Church, that I talked about in my last blog, and it turns out that they moved because they grew so much, not because they disbanded. another praise. Still, its all a little scary, but I'm focusing on the praise. And we got it for the price of an average house, how beautiful is that? I must contain my glee and conclude (mounds of summer planning await) but I must say before I go, isn't it wonderful to have a God that will shower us with blessings even when we're feeling ungrateful, even whern we're feeling lonely and ignoring the One who is continually knocking on the door of hearts? I'm truly only beginning to see what it means to live under God's perfect and abundant grace, and I can only hope to in the minute measure that I am able, to emulate this over-reaching and compassionate love to those around me. Too often I am quick to judge, and take small offences as evidence of a greater lack in someone's character. If the Lord looked at us in the same way, there would be no way that there could be any communion between Someone so Holy, and us. That is really my biggest praise of all, and should be so every day.