(That's: 4 rolls of Bounty Basic paper towels, 4 bottles Pert Plus, 8 double rolls of Cottonelle, 3 boxes Kleenex, Phillips ear buds, a netipot, Dial hand soap, 2 tubs Cottonelle fresh wipes, 2 boxes Sinex, 1 box NyQuil, Motrin PM, 4 boxes of cereal, and a HAIRDRYER!)
Guess how much?
$2.00. Oh yeah!
Other deals today: 2 free tall brewed coffees at Starbucks, $10 off my birthday breakfast at Mimi's Cafe, 50% off picture frames, Christmas party goods, and a couple of gifts at Hobby Lobby. :)
"For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness. For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him." Psalm 18:28-30
This past week my brain unexpectedly started to process through some of the enormity of Seth's graduation in May. Previous reflection on that monumental event has left me with an overwhelming but vague sense of gratitude and relief--hardly interesting material for a blog post. Unsurprisingly, it was music that prompted my unexpected flow of thought.
Last Wednesday evening I was driving home from church, alone in Seth's car while he valiantly manned the minivan full of tired children. Tired of the mediocre music on the radio I fished around in the console for a CD. In the dark I pulled out an unknown disc and slid it into the player. It turned out to be an old rehearsal CD of church choir music.
I remember well the first choir rehearsal of that semester. Our family was in the middle of dissertation season and we had just experienced some difficult setbacks. As we sang through our new repertoire that evening it seemed to me that nearly every song was chosen especially for me. God ministered to my weary and battered soul that night, reminding me that He was faithful, that I had hope in Him, that He loved me, and that He would sustain me.
Returning, last Wednesday night, to dwell on these songs that had already impacted me so deeply was an amazingly joyful experience. I listened to lyrics which I had previously chosen by sheer faith in the truthfulness of God's Word to believe, now experientially knowing them to be true. I can, by God's grace, say:
"God has a plan, it’s not to harm me
But it’s to prosper me and to hear me when I call
He intercedes for me, working all things for my good
Though trials may come I have this hope"
I Have a Hope, Tommy Walker
Here are videos for three of the songs that inspired this post. Please excuse the cheesy media on the first two and the unidentified foreign language subtitles on the third.
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Since the day Leila was born, we have called our kids "the BLT." (Benjamin, Leila, Talia...get it?) So when I saw a family costume idea in a magazine for a BLT, I decided right then and there that's what the kids were going to be for Halloween.
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