Are not YOU more of value than they?

Your prayers are being heard; thank YOU. As you know carrying out my responsibilities with my current employer has become more and more a challenge as a need to devote time to ministry, support raising and moving become higher priorities. Though as I am still working full work weeks, I have to continue to fulfill all requirements to meet numbers, provide service to customers, etc. I hope to keep my job for as long as possible for insurance sake as well. Missionary insurance won't begin until I actually depart in a plane to Serbia. So, communication with corporate office on what is best for the both of us has been a great prayer request. I had a prayer partner text me this morning to say that they had been, "praying that (my) conversations with them (job) would blow (my) mind." It has... God has been providing in some rather obviously and mind blowing ways just this week. I am incredibly grateful for God's grace and love in tangible ways just this week alone. I can't NOT share how great our Father is:

Monday was MLKJ day. Contacting my boss on a day off seemed unwise. However, being two weeks from JV (mission board) orientation in Chicago, I really wanted to touch base. Just when I thought, no, the day has passed, my boss began texting me! Next thing I know, we are chatting on the phone about the very scheduling conflict I needed to talk with her about. The transition was too smooth. JV orientation and work conferences are coming up on the EXACT same days in Feb. As I was explaining I need this time off work, my boss said, "Well, you will never guess. There was an oversight and you are not registered as we thought. No problem. Have the week off." We went on and chatted and the conversation went too well. She was so supportive and helpful.

Two days later, another conflict arose and God sent in 3(ish) inches of snow and all the schools in the tri-state were called off! Then Friday the "Snow Blizzard of 2016" was to hit Northern KY, yet it just missed us. We only had maybe one inch of snow even though all the school were called off!

As I share a week of miracles in two, short paragraph form, I know I have ingloriously taken from each day's events. However, God's glory shall be declared even GREATER as I share all He did this week! Though the details may be minuscule to you, they are the very thing He heeds most. The very details I neglected to share to you, were the ones He rushed in to provide.

As mom and I are doing a puzzle right next to our window (photo to the right) enjoying the light dusting we got yesterday, I am reflecting on how He provided out of my control, unrealistic, unfathomable ways this week. As I sit, little birdies of such small statue are feasting on seed mom has provided outside our door despite the storm. To these little birds in a big storm, the snow looks debilitating as they have no knowledge of when the storm will end or where they will receive their next meal of nourishment, yet God does, He knows, He cares. He tells us just how much He cares for them in Matthew 6: 25-27.

Just as God has provided from my mom's simple seed for these birds in a storm, He has done just the same for me. This week He has provided such nourishment for my faith. I don't know what any step ahead holds, but I know He is holding me. Through my church's new year challenges, my commitment to God this week was to bring all I had. All I had this week was a little faith to trust Him in whatever this week of rough situations brought, and He blessed what I thought would be challenging to face week instead with a smooth, stress-free, exciting and His glory filled week! Nothing can explain this week but His love. I am so encouraged and excited for what is ahead, even more than before! God provided miracles and an unexplainable series of events, so I can't even fathom what is ahead! We serve a mighty, indescribable Lord and Savior!

Matthew 6: 26b Are not YOU more of value than they?