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God is good!
Dec 27, 2008
You know I've been told more than once in my lifetime God will never give you more than you can handle. Now, there've been time I've questioned exactly how wide my shoulders appear looking down from heaven at me. Lord knows, my back side used to need the wide load sign but not so much anymore. LOL!My husband Tony started moving his stuff on Saturday of last week. I actually felt bad for my BIL Rob who came over to help him move...under the impression T had actually packed stuff up! LOL Rob should have known T never does anything to preplan for anything I was always the person who did this. I figured since T wanted to move out I'd let him pack his stuff...only he didn't do it. Poor Rob kept saying "The description was misleading" as he sat in the middle of my husbands music room picking up his trash so they could carry stuff out the door. LOL! I admit there are 2 rooms in my house I don't touch and both of them are his because when we were dating I put something where it didn't belong...and well I won the argument and never cleaned those rooms again.
Sunday was the last day I saw Tony. It was bittersweet when he told me he'd be staying at his new place and not coming home to sleep. Several things happened on Sunday night. I froze my butt off since my "heater" wasn't in bed next to me. I got ALL the bedding out to put on my bed. I slept in the middle of it and NO ONE stole my covers...did I mention I lost 240 lbs overnight? LOL
Monday was eye opening! I had a flat tire when I went out to go to work. I was further irritated because I not only could NOT get the cap off, it was freezing and I couldn't get the lugnuts loose to change my tire. Oh, did I mention I needed to be at work at 6am. Thank God for my Mom! She let me take her van to work. I ended up getting new front tires, I didn't plan on getting and an oil change because of course the low oil light came on while I was hobbling with my car to Wally world! Merry Christmas to me I know you're thinking "how much more?"
Tuesday right before lunch my Mom called me at work. The ice is falling and the roads are getting bad in Anderson already. She'd gone to the doctor, stopped by the house for a minute, went back outside her van started but EVERY time she puts it in drive it dies. She called our Ford dealer McCrocklins, they came and got the van, my Mom who's 5 ft 3 managed to get herself into the tow truck. McCrocklin's lets you drive their loaner cars when you buy a vehicle from them. What a blessing.
Wed - we got the dreaded phone call from the dealer, transmission, power steering rack, brakes and something else are all bad on the van. $5000 just for parts. Mom bought a new van instead of paying to have this one fixed. Merry Christmas to her!
Christmas day - Dinner at my Aunt and Grandma's with Mom, myself and my husband. He didn't have anywhere to go for Christmas dinner and my family loves him...so he came with us to dinner. It was a little ackward for him because he told me later it may be his last Christmas with us. My Aunt, Gma, Mom and I don't feel that way and don't want T to feel thatt way either. Grandma had a stomach virus and it caused her to throw up at dinner. Come on - we've all been here - only she didn't have surgery.
Listening to the radio (KLOVE) on Christmas day I heard this song by Mandisa. It talked about Christmas and it makes her cry. Remembering loves ones who passed, soldiers who give their lives for our freedom, God who gave his son. I realized this is SOOO much bigger than I am.
I checked it with family and friends on Christmas and I have 2 female cousins with kids that are going through divorces right now. Both are younger than I am AND they have kids. I'm grateful now that I don't because it will be less complicated.
Friday I bought Mandisa CD at the Family Christian store and a movie called "Facing the Giants". Oh my! Both are fabulous! I also ran into the drummer and his wife at Sears. They were asking if I'd be at the gig and I told them no. I told them about the divorce and asked them to pray for T and myself. They both told me I shouldn't have to be married and live in a different city than my husband and I deserved better than the way I've been treated. I agree!
My husband called me today - he's had the virus my Grandma had with vomiting and diarrhea. He said he misses me. I know it's because he's sick. I told him about the drummer and his wife. Guess T was too sick to go to the gig last night so he didn't get to tell anyone else. He did tell me he's told the guitar player about the split up and he's decided Tony is a dumb a$$ and has been treating him like he's attending a funeral... I can't help it all the band and the wives love me...well everyone but the one who should.
Watched "Facing the Giants" today. It's a football based movie about a coach whose on a loosing streak and overhears a meeting of the parents who want him booted. It's brought to the coaches attention he's got a mission he needs to complete for God and he needs to be a spiritual leader to the players and give the glory from the wins and the misery from the losses to God. Basically, praise him whether they win OR loose. The boys start to believe in themselves, trust each other and worship as one unit. They started winning and as they won the boys told others about God. You HAVE to see this movie! I'm going for another copy tomorrow my nephews need to see this.
I guess I've blogged my way to sleepiness so off to bed I go in my nice warm fleece jammies my Mom bought me for Christmas! I couldn't ask for a better gift from God than to have given me her. She's been a rock for me, a shoulder to cry on, a friend to laugh with and now she's providing me with warm jammies to sleep in. God is good!
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Anderson, IN
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08/08/2008
Surgery Date
Aug 17, 2008
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