Can't Sleep

This is very unusual for me. I never have trouble sleeping. Maybe it's the 2 1/2 hr nap from this afternoon. Anyways, a good excuse to sit and reflect on the awesome God I serve! He has blessed us so abundantly and given us things over the last few days that we had been wanting, but not even praying for.

First, yesterday, I got a message on FB from a woman I go to church with, and honestly don't know that well. Anyway, she sent me a message and said that she had heard through the grape vine that Gracie was taking piano lessons and did we need a piano?

Well, my poor little girl has been taking lessons for about 5 months now (off and on thanks to summer schedules) and practicing on an old electric keyboard from MY teenage years. My mom has a piano in Ashland, but it has been impossible (ok, I know nothing is impossible with God, and we really hadn't put THAT much effort into it) to coordinate a plan to get it to Louisville, short of spending major bucks, which we have a more important place to spend our bucks at the moment.

This wonderful lady and her husband are going to the mission field and looking for a place to "store" the piano for the next 5 years or so, do we want it?!!! YEAH GOD!
Free piano!

Blessing #2- anyone who has been to our house and hung out in our family room has seen the sad shape of the furniture. We have a love seat that is now several shades of tan with very mis-shaped pillows and a chair that we drug out of the house of the deceased grandmother of a friend, years ago. Again, would love to have new furniture, but saving money to bring little Vanderpool home.

Sweet family in our Sunday School class announces this morning they are giving away their love seat and chair set to make room for their new furniture! Does anyone want it?!! Yeah!!

SO now, we have a piano, and a sofa and chair set, all free, all beautiful, all gifts from wonderfully generous brothers and sisters in Christ.
Our God is GREAT!

Oh, and last but MOST important, sweet little Monroe has a family! Somewhere, a family is waiting to take him home!! Isn't it just overwhelming how good God is?