to smiling this morning. I just read my son's blog, and I'm praising God for answered prayers! (I'm still waiting for his birth certificate to show up). I'll talk about that in a moment, but a few other comments first.
Here I am this morning, for some unknown reason, feeling really tired this morning. I think I slept well enough, but I did have an extremely busy day at work yesterday making organizational charts in the afternoon which requires a lot of concentration to make sure you get everything right. I also worked out with some of my light weights, trying to build up my strength. I also walked Sheeba about a half mile further than I have for awhile. Did that all contribute to my tiredness? Probably.
Struggling to stay awake - and not succeeding really well. I did my reading, closed my eyes as I was praying, and then my fitbit starts buzzing as it has different alarms set on it - intentionally. My fitbit wakes me at 4:05AM (cause I usually set the alarm on the clock for 4AM and if I woke up before, I was afraid I'd not get up right away). Then it goes off I think at 4:15 to make sure I'm up. Then it goes until 5:00, then 5:30AM. The last one woke me just now. So I pull out my computer to read my son's blog first, and that wakes me up and I am smiling.
He posted a photo of our beautiful little great granddaughter. She is priceless. So full of life and joy and wonder. Because he mentioned more were posted on facebook, I just had to go so see! Then he shares another surprise.
I think I talked about surprises a post or so ago. How God surprises us sometimes. I think I used another word, but that escapes me at the moment. But my son got surprised. An answer to prayers. His wife had gone over to work on their old house - and found a stack of cards which she brought over to him. In this stack of cards were business cards, unused gift cards, and..... his social security card. (Thank you, Jesus!) Now he can contact the workplace that he had hopes of working for and get started working. He has had such difficulty trying to get his birth certificate (still unfound) and a replacement for his social security card since the pandemic has closed everything.
I love surprises. I love it when we don't know if God will answer, we wish He would, we believe He can, but don't know if He will. And He does. Yes, this was probably just a simple misplacement of business cards, gifts cards, and the social security card that probably fell out of my son's wallet several months ago. He hadn't missed any of them. You know how it is with us women and our purses. Don't ask me what I have in mine. In fact, I rarely carry it with me now. I have everything stuck in my phone so don't need the pens/pencils/papers/kleenex/etc. that I stick in there. Now I'll carry it when I go back to work, but just running to the store, I don't need it.
Anyway, I can't tell you what all I have in it. And I imagine most men could not tell you what they have in their wallets. They do the same thing we do - they search to see if something is in there. And, if it falls out, more than likely unless it is something you use frequently, you won't even miss it.
What if it had fallen directly into the trash? It was behind the trash can. What if my daughter in love had picked it up and put in the trash, not going through it? No one would have ever known his social security card was in that stack, had she not checked to see what was all there. All I can say is 'thank you, God, that You heard prayers for this simple little card that was creating such havoc in my son's life, and You kept it from falling into the trash many months ago, so that my son could have a 'surprise' moment.' We don't know why the delay. We don't know why it fell out. We don't need to know. All we need to understand, is that You allowed it to be found. Thank you.
Yeah, see what I love surprises? My prayer for you is that you will keep your heart, mind, and eyes open to see what our Heavenly Father wants to surprise you with today. It may be just a smile from a stranger that causes you to smile back. It may be an open door as you need to walk through it. It may be a photo of a little loved one who pulls on the strings of your heart. Whatever it is, enjoy the moment, for it is one our Father loves to give you.
Be ready. Surprises do happen!
Blessings!
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