Goin 2 Splash Country

This is my doggie, everyone!  She's a sweet little angel.  She wanted to say HI!

Well, anyhoo... We've had more family in town this weekend.  This time it's been my hubby's mom and niece.  We've had such a good time.  We have taken them all over the place, showing them the sites, and eating up all the good food in the area, of course.  We had to take them to this great thai place that we love.  If you haven't had thai food, you've gotta do it.  It's like Chinese food, but with a beautiful touch to it. Plus, it's much less sticky than Chinese food can be, although I love me some good sticky Chinese food when I can get my hands on it;)

Well, yesterday I had an experience I've never had before.  Last year I read this Joyce Meyer book, and she was telling stories of God asking her, a few instances in her life, to give a piece of jewelry to someone.  If I recall, He never even told her why to give it to them, He just said to simply give it.  I never really took much thought to it since God had never asked such a seemingly odd thing like that before;)  So anyway, I was at a restaurant last night, and this tall and beautiful hostess at the door would just not smile back at me; she just seemed so sad.  I didn't think too much of it b/c I didn't see her for a while later, but when I did, there she was with this look on her face.  All of a sudden, God said to give her my necklace.  Mind you, this was my favorite necklace, and on top of that, it was the necklace that I'd recently discovered that I'd lost.  I remember thinking, "God you gave this necklace back to me because I decided to make my family a little money by selling some of my jewelry on ebay."  How bout that, eh?  Now He was asking me to give it away!  ;)  I felt so weird about it too;  I didn't know what to say to her.  So I waited until no one was around her, an until my family was in the bathroom, etc.  I told her that it may sound weird to her, but that God had told me to give it to her for her to wear.  She said thank you, and smiled.  She smiled for the first time I'd seen her that entire night.  No telling what God will do with that dove-imprinted necklace, but it's all in His Plan.  I encourage you today to listen hard to God and what He wants you to do for others today.  I, in no way, wanted to brag to you about this story, but to testify through this story that God wants to use us in tiny little ways like that.  No telling what He will do with that situation, but it is something, huh?  Bless you guys, and Psalm 91!!!

-Tara K