Rainy Days On Wednesday Always Get Me Down

I love rainy, cloudy days. We were suppost to clean windows today and can't do them. So I had the day off from work. My plan was to stay in my PJ's, sleep late and hang around the house and read this book I started over a month ago. I have the first chapter memorized because everytime I pick it up I start at the beginning. But God changed my plans . Instead I spent
5 hours driving from the post office to the bank trying to buy a International Money order that can be exchanged from American dollors to England pounds.

Gary and I have a lady who has been living with us for several weeks now. Her name is Maria she is in her late 50's and she is from England. She came to the states for a visit 17 months ago and found herself homeless after a short time here. I met her at the Mission Outreach back in January where she was living. She and I began talking and became friends. I offer her a job to help her with airfare to get her home and she has been working with me since. She met a young lady who was living at the Mission and they became friends and decided they were going to move into an apartment together and share expenses. After putting a deposit on their place,
the other lady decided to go back to her husband so she offered a room to Maria for $50.00 a week. She came to work one day and I ask her why she seemed to be so tired, was she sleeping well in her new place? She told me she had been sleeping on a tile floor on a swimming pool floaty all week because she had no bed. That afternoon I told her she was welcome to come to the house and sleep in our spare room so she could get a good night sleep.
She did. I told Gary about what was taking place and over coffee the next morning he spoke with Maria and told her she was welcome to stay as long as she wished, no charge and she could have Kayla's room. So she did.

She has decided she wants to become a citizen of the great USA and so we have been trying to get her birth certificate from England for the past month. What a hassel! It is going to cost $87.00 to get the birth certificate which is 27.50 pounds in English money. We had already sent a money order 3 weeks ago but recieved it back today with a letter attached that said they can not cash the MO because it was US dollars. So our journey began.

After 4 hours of the bank and the Post Office I stopped the car and told Maria we are getting no where fast and that we need some "Divine Intervention". We prayed and ask God to please help us get something done with this MO. We drove back to the bank and found we were talking to the WRONG PERSON and the right person had it all taken care of in a matter of minutes!!!!

It wasn't the lazy day I had planned for myself, God had other plans for me today. I realized that if I would have just ask Him sooner I could have been home, in my PJ's curled up in bed with my book within an hour.

Moral of this Blog: " Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4: 6-7