God Provides

Our lives have been pretty crazy for the last couple of weeks, but we've had some fun in there and some big God moments too! First of all, we have an apartment! Our housing stresses have been relieved. We knew that God would provide something for us, but it was getting really hard not to be stressed about it anyways with it getting so close to our move date. Matt's grand parents went to look at some apartments and houses for us in Merced last week. The houses/duplexes were all in bad shape and bad areas. They stumbled upon a small apartment complex, however. The units are small, a 2 bedroom with 675 sq. feet (about half the size of our upstairs right now), but they are one level with no one above them. It is a gated community with only 20-30 units and a pool. The managers are very nice and willing to hold it for us. This is such a huge answer to prayer! They allow dogs and have a good amount of green space for Samson to go to the bathroom. It is only 1.3 miles from Matt's school... so he can bike and we can function with one car. That dog park I was talking about in my last post is also only about 1 mile away.

We are thanking God for the apartment; although we knew that He would provide something... so this next thing seems much bigger to us because we were not expecting it. A couple of weeks ago, Matt blew a tire on his way to work. When he brought it in to get new tires, they said that he bent up the wheel rim (or something like that) too badly to put a new tire on, and that he would need a new one of those too! Thankfully they had a cheaper generic option, but the total with tires was still around $350. So all of that on top of an existing problem that we needed to get fixed before we drive accross the country: his car window has been broken for a while... it won't go up and down with the switch and starts falling down, so you have to pull it back up. We took this in and the part that was broken was quite expensive as well. We talked them down a little, but that ended up to be around $350 as well.... totalling around $700 in a week for the car.

I am sitting there thinking: we need our money for moving expenses; we're not going to have much left after the car and that. Thursday was Matt and my last day of work. We both got our last paychecks and everything like that. It ended up that Costco pays out all of your remaining sick and vacation time when you leave, and Matt had hardly taken any sick time ever (I'm not sure we even knew he had sick time!). So what is my point about this blessed paycheck? It was almost exactly $700 more than his normal paycheck that we were expecting! Gasp! I always hear people talk about those moments where they need a certain amount of money and they like get a check in the mail for that exact amount or something, but I have never experienced it myself. Thank you Lord for your faithfulness!