Mana from Heaven via Aunt Sue

Little blessings here and there and keeping us going... and eating.

So, I think it is easy to dream about or pray for the big finish when you have hit hard times. "Please bless that the band will make money soon. Please bless that John Mayer will like the music. Please help the band win a Grammy -- soon, Amen."

And it can feel discouraging when the big goal doesn't come to pass as soon as you hoped, but I have learned over the past year that every thing does work out and the Lord does provide.

It started several months ago when each month we would come into some form of extra money ... gifts, donations, tax returns, invoices, extra jobs, big gigs or whatever. Every time this happened I just got stressed and would just worry how the next month would work out since this month was a "fluke."

But I surrender now. I get it. These flukes are our blessing, and I am officially grateful for them.

Just the other day, I figured out how I could make my own bread since it is too expensive at the store. But I didn't have a wheat grinder yet. I decided to ask for one for my birthday. But how would we have enough flour until then?

Well, the next day Aunt Sue said she got a huge box of whole grain bread mix on sale, and she wanted me to take some and figure out how she could use it. When everything was divided out, I ended up heading home with enough whole wheat flour to keep us in bread for exactly the six weeks until my birthday.

I guess it doesn't all have to come at once. I'm hoping now to be more grateful for this path as it unfolds. Maybe its a test of my patience and faith, but I starting to understand that there will always be enough Mana to survive today.