By the grace and love of God

Here is an inspiring and uplifting post as they get.

Lately I have been struggling with prayer. I have noticed that my life has become so busy that God was put on the back burner, a place I never wanted him to be. So, yesterday Ben and I were arguing about money. We have a strict budget that we stick to and for some reason this check period we WAY over exceeded that budget. This happens a lot because we are newlyweds and we are trying to adjust to a budget, but normally we are maybe $50 short which can be easily worked into our budget. This pay period we somehow ended up being hundreds short.

I was upset and prayed to God for help. I know we have savings to cover us, but this was our own fault. We over spent and I hated the idea of depleting part of our savings to cover our mistake. We needed to fix the situation ourselves and God needed to be included in that.

Today, I woke up very stressed about money. I went to the eye doctor and spent $55! I was freaking out. I then went and did very conscious budget grocery shopping and managed to stay within the $70 I had allotted myself. Afterwards, I went to see my father who does taxes for a living to spend in our tax returns.

My dad worked our numbers and handed me a piece of paper stating we would be getting $4000 in 10 days! After praying last night for help, I knew this was God. God sent us this money just in the nick of time. We desperately needed it and now not only will we not deplete our savings, it will grow exponentially! God always answers in some way. It may not have been the way I would have suspected (God descending from heaven hold out a $4000 check would have been very cool, right?), but he does answer in his own way.

I wanted to show this to my blog community because while praying last night all I could think was "why would he help me? I have made no time for him in months. Who calls a friend to help them after not speaking to them in months?" but, God doesn't care what his children have done when they are in trouble. He helps them and uplifts them.

I hope this moves you in a way to realize that God is in all things. See everyday as a miracle of his grace.

God Bless.