Thursday, April 9, 2009

God's provision continues

Did you ever doubt?? Well, let's just say I'm a bit like the waves of the sea that is described in the book of James in the Bible, tossed to and fro by the wind!! I entered a contest on our local Christian radio station and KNEW I was going to win 1000.00!! I just really knew that God wanted me to win that contest to put the money towards our plane tickets(3 round trip-we are taking our daughter Abby). Guess who didn't win? ME! UGH. I was bummed and began really stressing about how to pay for plane tickets without paying for months and months on our credit card. I priced 3 round trip tickets from DFW to Seoul with a layover in LA. It was priced at 4400.00 :(( I have flown to Korea before on the non-stop flight from DFW via Korean Air when I escorted a baby for our agency(I've been an Area Rep for Dillon Int for about 5 years). I really thought the nonstop flight would be a lot more than with a layover so I hadn't even considered that possibilty. Yesterday I checked into it. Guess what?? For all 3 of us to fly nonstop from DFW to Seoul via Korean Air was 3400---exactly 1000.00 cheaper than what I was thinking we would pay! Coincidence you say? NO WAY. I know my God, and He orchestrates such little awesome details that I can never chalk it up to happenstance. So, surely with the 2 garage sales we still have planned for fundraising, and cashing our 1000.00 mutual fund that has done nothing over the past year, we shall be getting really close. I really really really do not want to have a big debt over our heads from this trip. I'm quite the frugal(okay, many call me cheapo!) momma and debt is yucky yucky. We can talk budgeting principles later ;) Yes, I do wash and resuse my sandwhich baggies!!
Anybody wanna share about little ways God surprised you with His provision? We'd love to hear it!

1 comment:

  1. So you actually did win - just not the contest :)
    What a great deal you found.
    Jane

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