God sold a cow...

I have often heard people in times of great financial struggle say something along the lines of, "Well, if the Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills, I need him to sell a cow right about now." Well, as many of you know, Jared and I have needed God to sell a cow for a while now. We are into the second year of a three year plan to get out of revolving debt. The journey into that plan was long, hard, and glad to be forgotten. BUT, in this process, we have learned a ton about contentment, perseverance, and our Father's faithful provision through our unfaithful deeds. Okay, all that said, living with no credit cards has been quite difficult in a world of increased prices and immediate payment. Case in point...our A/C broke a few months ago. We are still in our first year of home warranty, so we called and had a temporary fix performed by a company that we will NEVER call again! So, after they took our 60 bucks and did not fix our A/C, we went a different, LONG route to getting a brand new unit. Well, as you can imagine, the price tag associated with a brand new A/C is humongous, and we didn't have five thousand or so dollars lying around waiting to be spent! So, we began to pray for a miracle. Faithful friends prayed with us and BEHOLD!...we have a new A/C that has a million and one deals worked on it by my husband with the warranty people. But, in the end...they paid for over half of it! After a very successful garage sale on Saturday and the IRS stimulus rebate thingy, its done! So, I say this to remind you that our God does indeed own the cattle on a thousand hills, and yes, He will sell one for you on occasion...He just may choose to sell it during your garage sale!

Here is Jakob feeding some cows at Kenny's Korral week before last...maybe these are the ones that paid for the A/C?!