So… to continue yesterday a bit (you’ll really need to read that post for today’s to make any sense). One desire I asked my Heavenly Father for as I got ready to get into an insane day yesterday, in response to “What do I want Him to do for me?” I wanted to get a desk for Christine. I tried to solve the desk dilemma by painting a laminate one I had from a while back – it was a project fail, never made it here.
Since early September she’s been using it – too ugly (paint started peeling from the first moment of setting the laptop on it), too small (notice laptop sitting on small table to left of desk), with a keyboard pull out…
back on track… I asked Him to help me get a desk for her ‘today’, the kids have their High School Retreat this weekend – so I knew I had tonight and all day tomorrow to clean and organize.
He did!
He blessed beyond what I could imagine. Target had the desk I wanted, but it was $30 more in the store than online and online was a sale making it actually $50 more. I decided wasn’t going to to it. Then I turned around, and there was the matching bookshelf with 2 doors I’ve watched since it came out – on clearance for $46, not $146, but $46!!!! but there wasn’t one in the box on the shelf, so I took the paper to customer service to ask if they had more. They did! In the process I found out they would honor the online price for the desk too. I got both the desk and shelf hutch for less than the original cost of the desk in the store!
This is the whole of my living room since putting the couch this way in September, to accommodate a second desk. It was always a mess. I couldn’t stand it. See those two boxes – that’s the desk and shelf. They don’t look that big on the shelves in Target :-). It was like this 24 hours – several of those hours my two youngest nieces were here – put a damper on playing (so I was that auntie and let them watch a movie in the morning), but they made a nice place to color and eat snacks :-D!
Besides all that – am so excited for another reason! I am starting to understand His love for me, as His daughter, more and He cares for the “little” things too.
I realize a desk I like in my living room is not earth-shattering by any stretch of my imagination. I am not a go-out-and-buy whatever person (even if I had the money, I wouldn’t). I am cheap, cheap, cheap and like to come up with my own solutions, but I have exhausted all my options not including buying a ready-made desk.
- I still have to earn an income. (should I not have spent money on a desk?)
- I still have to learn how to run a business. (income I’m getting now is soon going to go away – elections are here in just over 3 weeks)
- Groceries & gas prices continue to go up. (this just flat out scares me, I can’t cut any more out.)
There are much more urgent needs than a desk, I’ve listed just a few….but, He is bigger than all of those. Those are circumstances. He is God.
Guess what I’m doing tonight :-D?!
