Blessings

Blessings come in oddest of times. There have been a few in my life lately, two of them being with in the last 24 hours. It’s always when you don’t expect it too. That is the amazing thing about blessings though, they come when you would never expect them.

Awhile back I lost a Bible that meant the world to me because it was my graduation Bible. There was a lady Betsi Calhoun who lost her daughter in an accident, dedicated her ministry to teenagers and young adults. Well every year she gave the graduates a Bible, some of them who knows what happened to it, but I took mine to college with me. Mine got beat up with the other books in my backpack, bent when I was nervous, left places and I was always able to get it back ( Thank you God).

Along with the Bible was a Bible Dictionary, it was in the same tote and also meant the world to me. It was given to me by a family that made a huge effort to be super role models in my life, because I was lacking that in my family. I knew they didn’t have a ton of money so I wasn’t really expecting it.

I felt so loved because of these two things (material things) and that meant the world. They got lost together and I was devastated. All I wanted was to get them back. Neither family lives in the area anymore so it’s wasn’t like I could just call them up and be like oh so where did you order those? One evening I sat at the Episcopal Church crying and a mom I knew happened to be walking by and asked if I was okay, I couldn’t hear her because I had turned music on in an attempt to calm myself down. When she came over I told her what had happened.

Last night, I was minding my own business sitting at the laundromat eating dinner while waiting for laundry (I think its the most boring job ever…), when Heather and her husband walked in (and I know they don’t do laundry there). Heather told me that she had talked to Betsti and that Betsi wanted to sign and send me another Bible…. okay… Heather needed my address so I texted it to her.

Then, this morning I was in not such a great mood after walking my dog and have her flipping out because she wanted to eat all the dogs and motorcycles in town. I decided to go to the used book store, they had a Bible Dictionary…. you know what it cost…. a whole $1.50. Oh my goodness, I was so excited.

But it gets better, (I totally love the used book sale people) I asked about volunteering for YA books and asked after spending a good five minutes looking for The Odyssey if they might know if they had it. None of us could find it. I figured after a bunch of looking around that I would see if they had a book on protein, but they didn’t. As I’m looking for a book on protein I hear “I found it, I knew we had one.” one of the volunteers had found the Odyssey which I was supposed to read in high school, but didn’t because I hadn’t learned the whole poetry thing. I’ve been wanting to read it for like a year, but have been stuck in the middle of like 3 series, so I want to finish them first. I now have a copy of The Odyssey to read whenever I get the chance.

All I can say is that I feel so blessed today and it totally makes up for having a dog who isn’t the best at listening. ThanK you God for these blessings.