Something I feel is worth sharing. This past week was tough for me, actually the past three weeks have been because of the six am wake up to get my son to school. That’s why this past week was so hard though, after the first two weeks of school for him, I was worn and weary and my body (and brain) is so tired. So when this past Monday came around, I was struggling to pull myself from bed. I told myself, just get him ready, on the bus, and then we can just go back to sleep. Fully intending to do just that. Goals be dam*ed. Anyway the bus was 15 mins late so my son and I spent time waiting doing our good day dance (“good day, good day, it’s the good day dance”) So I was more awake. Still feeling grumpy. But I decided not to lie back down, despite how much I wanted to. I decided I was just going to do the morning walk with the baby, and then maybe I could nap. Well… Not even a min into the walk, I found myself walking nearly side by side with another young woman my age. She had headphones in so I wasn’t gonna bug her, but I waved and smiled. She pulled her earphones out and said hi. She’d seen which house I came out of, and she didn’t know me, so she introduced herself. She’s lived in our neighborhood for about eight years. She knows everyone. She asked how long we had been here, and I said a few months, though it’s almost been a year. We ended up walking together and talking the whole time. She told me she’d been praying for wisdom on her situation, and we talked like we’d been friends forever. She gave me her number and even showed me where she lived. We walked twice more this past week. I already feel so blessed to know her. I am mostly homebound and it’s not easy for me to make friends. Anyway. Felt very blessed for choosing to stick with my goals and prayer time with God. If I had gone back to sleep, I would not have met her. Proverbs 20:13 says “Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.” Like many things in the Bible, this verse probably has more than one meaning, and I certainly feel like my spiritual wealth was increased by this encounter. So now I have fruit of the spirit to spare. 🥰 I wanted to share because this meant so much to me. It might seem small but to me this was a big big thing.

Posted by Amber at 2022-09-04 17:37:15 UTC