Downtime

I am at work and while on a bit of down time decided I would update this thing. I still find myself not have adequate time to update and that makes me sad. But really... how many people are really dying to read this? Probably not a lot, so I don't stress myself on it.

I have started a new job at Land/Home Financial and can honestly say, this is the happiest I have been at a job since Circuit City. That's like 3 years! I feel so blessed! Things are falling into place and now that I have said that, something will soon fall out of place :) I am working with some people I have worked with for quite sometime and LOVE it. This is the best!

Tom and I are continuing to prepare for the Temple- which is by far the biggest blessing in my life. I feel so grateful to have this opportunity. It is not too far away and I am excited to have people from our families travel and join us for our most special day. With preparing for the Temple, I have gained a strong testimony of paying tithing. I really didn't think much of it before, as we only paid when we felt we had the money to pay. Being that in order to enter the Temple, we have to be full tithe payers, we started to pay our tithing in full and sometimes that hurt. Instead of using the money to put away for rent, here we are writing out checks that could be used for something we need or want. But, I never was nervous about it. I felt so calm and collected, like the Spirit was telling me that we would be ok. If we followed the Lord's commandment and gave back 10% of what He gives us, we will be blessed. And blessed we have been. I am no longer worried about making rent. I know we will have the money, even though we don't have it yet. I am no longer worried about paying back our loans or making our bills. I just know it will be ok. And so far, I haven't been proven wrong. Tom was given more hours this week (like 11 more hours) and my work will pay me right away, even though I just started. And I owe it all to our Heavenly Father. And my sister told me this while I was in Wyoming for Morgan's birthday. She said, "Jason and I know that when we pay tithing, something always works out." I am so blessed that she is a member. I feel so much closer to her now than I ever have. I am excited for the possibility of her joining Tom and I in the Temple for our sealing. God has blessed us.

I have to remember that even when things don't go exactly to plan, that God has something better in store. That is so hard for me to remember sometimes, especially when I want it so desperately and right then!!! I know He has a plan. I know He knows what He is doing. I just have to have hope. And faith.

I feel like most of my blogs center around my faith. And I kind of enjoy that. I don't express it very often- although I hope to get better at it. I feel so happy to have this in my life. I felt like I was looking for it for so long.

"Hope is a good thing. And no good thing ever dies." ~Shawshank Redemption