Another gift!

Wow, this has been a week of blessings!

Sunday afternoon, as I was getting ready for our second service at the River, someone came up and handed me this new phone:

It was a gift from someone at the River. But let me back up a bit...

Up until a week ago, my phone served me without a problem (other than me texting too fast for it to keep up). But last Monday morning I woke up and my cell phone alarm went off as usual...but I was unable to turn it off. I had to remove the battery just to shut off the alarm. And the whole week was like that. I was only able to answer a couple calls and barely managed to squeek out a few text messages. My phone decided to become unresponsive countless times throughout the week.

But about the same time that my phone started acting up, my anonymous Gifter placed an order for this phone. You see, this phone is not a locally made phone. It's not some black market, bought out of a cardboard box on the side of the street phone. It's from Europe. It needed time to arrive here. The Gifter didn't even know my phone was acting up!

So Sunday I got another great gift. I love that the Father sees even the little things, the things that matter to us even though we know they shouldn't...and when all we're seeing is frustration, He's watching us thinking "just wait...something better is coming."