super good one..day 3

Today we reached a new financial low...I don't want to be to personal about this, but anyone who has/does roll the solo-income lifestyle knows this turmoil. I haven't been this poor since college when I was hunting for laundry money like a scavenger and rejoicing over quarters like they were gold. I was getting teary eyed today after I cooked up a really lame breakfast for dinner meal (although omelets and bacon are wonderful). I was about to pour myself a good glass of wine to really mope and watch an old, distracting movie. Then I decided that's not who I am and what I do, I should probably go pray awhile. Now Jovi doesn't exactly make allowances for me to go and pray, so she just happily destroyed the dining room while I tried to focus my thoughts awhile.  I prayed for a magical way for us to somehow get by for a bit and for Ed to either get a better job or my school district to finally call me about my job so my nerves rest. Then Jovi found a paper and started eating it really fast like a classmate of mine who use to eat his 'weekly reader' in first grade before the whole class even got theirs. The paper Jovi found had a rebate visa card attached from when we bought our cell phones. It fell behind a trunk I never open. I took it from her and got excited for gas money. Then in my usual quick-to-get distracted-away from prayer-time manner thought I should go through that trunk I never open and see if there's anything good to throw in for the garage sale next weekend. In the trunk was everything I threw left from our wedding and honeymoon. Cards, trinkets, hotel souvenirs, fake flowers, ribbons, honey jars and then 5 checks fell on the ground that were stuck to the bottom of a card box. 5 uncashed checks. Yes, they were from 2 years ago so I contacted the people who wrote them. They all so far have laughed and said, "Sure, please cash it." So the adventure continues and we magically make it to another paycheck. Faith is so much like the steps appearing under Indiana Jones' feet when he walked over the cliff. What if I didn't take the time to pray and put Jovi in that room? Not that God would not have provided if I would have drank wine and moped but maybe it would have been a harder. cheers. I thanked God after as I pondered these happening and drank my wine anyway.