Prayer: A Reminder from Above

 

Prayer Reminder

 

There are usually two kinds of people when it comes to "difficult times". There are the ones who stay calm in the face of chaos and then there are the people who really only add to the chaos. More often than not, I am the latter. God is growing me in this department but I still have a ways to go. That being said, this past week our family was faced with a minor situation. It of course felt more 'major' in the moment...funny how that happens when you're not thinking soberly.

 (See Titus 2:4 for more on this subject) 

 

 

WIC coupons are one of the many things that make it possible for us to be a one income family. My milk supply has dropped to almost nothing so I knew it was time to switch to formula for this last month or so before Ezra turns one. In order to switch to formula coupons I had to give WIC all of our old ones in exchange for the new ones. We searched high and low for our coupons and could not find them anywhere! Panic began to set in. I called the WIC office, for the third time that day, and asked what my options were if I couldn't find them. They said I would not only be losing those months currant coupons I had lost but I could not get the new formula ones without bringing in those old ones. So in other words...all of those things WIC originally covered, which helps our grocery budget a ton, were now for us to buy.

 

I hang up and immediately begin freaking out, frantically looking more. In the midst of all this chaos I can hear the Lord telling me to simply pause and pray. I didn't want to. I wanted to find the coupons right then and there, on my own. I wanted to make the results happen. I wanted immediate results.

 

My sweet husband kept assuring me that we would find them. I repeatedly told him how he was wrong and that our budget was going to be taking a huge hit and we'd have to start scaling back on other things to make our new formula expense work.

 

I finally sat down on our bedroom floor and there in front of me was my prayer journal. I looked up at my husband and said, "How funny would it be if they were in my prayer journal?"

 

I opened the front cover and there they were...looking up at me. My husband didn't laugh (well not loudly), he didn't say I told you so. He didn't need to. God was saying all of those things on His own. It was a very humbling lesson. A great lesson.

 

So the next time your faced with panic, don't be like me and try to handle it yourself, take it to the Lord first!

 

All glory to God for the found coupons and our new formula coupons! Praise the Lord!