So God is too amazingly good to me sometimes! I had an overwhelming experience of God showering down his love for me through people around me. It's hard to explain without going into what happened over the weekend.
I had an incredibly busy weekend. Friday night I rushed back up the hill for a candle party, the girl booked one off of my show so I kind of felt that I had to go. I got home that night and relaxed, shaved, and did my nails.
Saturday I woke up and got ready for my friend Diane's baby shower at 11am, stayed there till 2pm and then headed to one of my youth kids graduation parties, stayed there till about 5pm and then headed down the hill to hang out with Sam. The night before Sam had a poker party at his place and our friend Tony got a little drunk and was still feeling the affects of it, so Sam and I decided to go out and waste some time. We went out to dinner and went shopping and then got back to his place. Tony left after David had brought back his truck and so for some reason Sam and I had gotten into a disagreement and it ended up being a pretty big fight. It felt like neither of us was willing to budge in our issues. I couldn't even explain how it ended. I think we just finally decided to give up the fight, which probably wasn't a good thing because that left some left over frustrations (which ended up trickling into the next day). :(
Sunday I went to church. I had nursery and then after church I had to take some pictures of some items that a lady in the church wanted to sell on ebay. I left and went straight down the hill to meet Sam so we could go to Disneyland. On the way we got back on the same problem as the night before and ended up having another discussion that finally led to the completion of the argument. It was pretty intense and there were moments that I wanted to just walk away from everything. Thankfully we worked it out. We are having a hard time communicating our feelings. Neither of us feels that the other is working at understanding each othersÂ? issues. But we agreed that we were both willing to try. So by the time we reached DisneyLand everything was really good. We met my friends Steve and Julie and went on Soarin over California, Tower of Terror, and California Screamin. We didn't get much more in. We sat and enjoyed ice-cream and laughed about cat stories. Steve and Julie have this cat named Norman which fits the profile of Norman Bates. :D I practically pee'd my pants laughing so hard. We have decided we all need to have a bbq and let Sam meet Norman. We ended up leaving the park at 8pm.
I ended up getting home pretty late so decided not to go to the gym this morning. I got up and went to work. I was trying to find out how I could better communicate with Sam for future issues and well I had talked to my friend Rachel and also Marc. Ironically both recommended a book called "The Five Love Languages". Marc told me that it works to understanding how to show love and appreciation to any relationship, work, family or romance. I talked to Sam and we're really excited about reading it. I think even suggesting it to Sam showed him that I was willing to work at understanding him more. Work was stressful because of the memorial for Ronald Reagan the Post Office was closed Friday. So the checks that came in today were big as Mondays usually are but basically ended up being two days worth because we didn't get mail Friday. So needless to say I spent the day rushing to the last minute to get everything posted, balanced, photocopied and ready to go to the bank. I luckily finished it right on time.
I was driving up the hill and it was hot and I was just looking forward to spending some time relaxing tonight, maybe watching a movie when as I was pulling onto the off ramp I realized my tire sounded funny. I knew immediately what that meant :( a flat tire! I was so upset. I had my doughnut spare but couldn't find the part of the jack that helped lift it. I called my parents who I knew were on their date day. I called Sam who said he'd be willing to come up and help me. I told him that seemed a bit ridiculous since I was only 10 miles away from home. I told him I would call around to see if someone else in my family was able to help me. I called my brother who was in the middle of work and was willing but I told him I would try my sister. I called Heidi and told her and she was totally cool to send her husband to come help me. I went and sat in my car, tired, hot, frustrated and emotional. I started to have tears well up in my eyes and I just prayed and told God that I was really frustrated and really just wanted to get home and that I hated being so helpless. Right then an older guy pulled up, backed up behind my car and the guy just started to get his stuff out of his trunk! I was in such shock! I felt immediately that this was an angel sent from God! I tried to help out with what I could. When I asked the guy for his information he said no and then asked why I wanted it. I told him because I didn't have any money on me and I wanted to show my appreciation for him helping. He told me he wouldn't accept that and then asked if I had a boyfriend and told me to have him take me out to dinner tonight and that would be payment enough!!! I was already emotional but you could imagine how emotional I was after that! He made me promise! He was so sweet. He changed the tire and as he packed up to leave I thanked him again and my brother-in-law showed up. I explained it to him and he was blown away by it. He was actually looking forward to being able to help me out. I called everyone and told them what happened and everyone couldn't believe it! ItÂ?s amazing to think there are still people out there that will help complete strangers. But I am still not convinced that wasn't an angel. American Tire was closed so my brother even offered to drive me down to work tomorrow morning. I told him that maybe my mom would let me barrow her car and he said that if that worked out he could take my car in tomorrow morning and get the tires fixed. I was just so blessed by everyone and everything in this situation.
God has just done some amazingly awesome things for me this weekend. I feel rejuvenated! I feel like this is a new beginning in all aspects of my life! Well IÂ?m going to go watch that movie with my mom.
Bye
posted by Charity at 6/14/2004 06:55:00 PM 
