Sorry for the weird title, but i just couldn’t decide! It’s really been that kind of week! So I am very sorry for the silence on here! I wish I could say that It was going to get better, but October is jam packed!
So , here are somethings God has done this week in his amazngness!
1. God really has provided the perfect one on one aid for our autistic son. First off she is a believer in Jesus, so this makes all the difference in the world! Secondly hubby and I got to sit back and watch her interact with him on a field trip. She is exactly what we had prayed for!
2. Flexibility, patience, and perseverance. Those were the things God reinforced this past Tuesday, as we got home from the afore mentioned field trip! We got home after a brief trip to the craft store for some candles (more on that in the next point) and within 10 minutes we had no power….at all! Not normally a big deal BUT I had 8 people scheduled to come for dinner! We waited an hour, checked the electric company’s website…it was scheduled to come back on at 5:45, a whopping 45 minutes before everyone was to arrive! Do I reschedule? Do I relocate? Now what? So I made a few calls and we relocated to our church. 30 minutes before we left the power came back on! Now we move it back to our house, no everything was already packed to go! What a blessing! It was so much fun getting to know 2 of the newer families in our church! I could have been stressed out and I could have been worried about all the details but God had it all under control!
3. I was reminded of God’s protection, not just for our family but for the person in a wheel chair! Between the field trip and the dinner we stopped at a local craft store that was having a sale on jar candles. We got what we needed and left. We were in our Ford Excursion (it’s bigger than a Suburban) and we had a green light. Hubby was turning onto a ramp to head home. I yelled , “STOP” My husband was frustrated that i shouted, but there was a person in a wheelchair/scooter that never looked before crossing the road. I covered my face because they disappeared. I wasn’t sure what happened. I told my husband about the person and looked out his window, they were fine, but they were trying to race our truck. They had sped up. I am so thankful God protected them! And us!
4.god’s Peace….after our crazy schedule i needed to get away, not just for my sanity, but for my family’s as well. Girl Time. God knew that! And yesterday, i got such time! And God knew what I was going to come home to. A super agitated autistic child!
5. A gift of love….so what happens when you have an agitated, screaming, out of control autistic kid? How do you calm them down? Well last night I used a weighted blanket. Now all of this being said….we didn’t buy it, they are super Expensive but a lady from our church saw an advertisement for a free pattern for one. She called me immediately and asked if this was something we could use, to which I said YES! Two weeks later, we have this beautiful blanket that he LOVES!
This is just a fraction of what has gone on in the last week! And an even smaller fraction of what will go on in the coming weeks! Some of it has been hard, some of it…eh…but a good portion has been rich blessings from above!
I could choose to focus on the tough stuff, but instead I am deciding to be thankful!
Can you list some “God Sightings” from your life this week?
