God cares about lights

So the economy is bad......I guess we all know that by now! I'm sure that everyone is feeling the effects of it, and some more than others. Scotty has had a really tough year with business. He sells advertising to local clients for Comcast. Although these are the times when people need to advertise the most, it is when they want to advertise the least. Everyone is holding their pocketbooks very tightly and very closed! So it has been an uphill battle all year. I'd like to say that I haven't struggled with all the cost cutting at all, but let's face it....I like buying cute new clothes for my kids! I like being able to get highlights! I like buying new decorations for Christmas! I love to decorate and see SO many thing I'd like to do in our new house! I like to cook really fun meals! I like a lot of things that I just simply can't afford to do right now. Some days I'm ok with it. Some days I'm very stressed about it. Some days I'm downright angry about it. And some days I just feel sorry for myself. I think that as the economy has gotten worse, I've had a lot more thankful days and a lot less pity-party days. There are too many people that are truly suffering for me to feel bad about having kids in second hand clothes and having dull brown hair.



Anyhow...



As we pulled out our Christmas decorations this year, we were sad to see that almost everything we used to light our old house won't work here. We LOVE to decorate for Christmas, so this was a real bummer. We put up our wreaths and some lighted garland around the door. We both agreed that with all of the huge bushes in the front, some net lights would be great. But, not in the budget. I realize it may sound shallow, but it was just kind of a downer. I think it just kind of represented how our whole year has felt. I was pulling out of the driveway last week telling God I was ok with it, but was there any way we could get some lights for the bushes? A super sale somewhere? Someone who didn't want theirs? I'd take anything!



Fast forward to this past Tuesday...



My birthday club group met to celebrate my birthday and Christmas. We all brought a gift from our house that we didn't want anymore to play "dirty Santa".....can you see where I'm going with this? Yes, I picked the box that my friend Courtney had brought, full of Christmas decor and 4 boxes of NET LIGHTS FOR THE BUSHES!!!!



Can you believe that???? God cares about lights! More specifically, God cares that I cared about lights. I'm still absorbing it, and I love it!



I am so grateful for this small but very significant reminder that God will supply for all of our needs. He even supplies for some of our frivolous wants. So when the paycheck isn't matching our budget book, I remind myself that it will by ok, because we serve the God of light(s)!