The Lord has blessed me with a great week. Last Sabbath I was home and wanted to wash my son's hair, but he was coughing and sniffling some. He can develop asthma when he gets really sick and knowing the eligibility meeting for him to get into the disabled school program was coming up in a few days, I did not want him to miss it. He missed two others because of hospitalizations. He had almost three years worth of hair. I have seven years of thick natural hair myself and as I took apart the last braid I made in his hair, I decided to do something different.
I promised God I'd cut it. I wanted to make sure I would do it and I take making promises to the Lord very seriously. I had a vision in my mind for my son to attend kindergarten with a huge power to the people fro, but when I took his hair down, I thought about how effeminate it made him and I didn't want to risk him getting sick with the next wash. Between him and I, it was just too much hair, so I made the promise and went looking for my dad's barber kit. I never cut someone else's hair and was previously afraid of a buzz trimmer.
I cut it down low on the sides, cleaned the edges and let a little more on the top and middle back to have it resemble a low mohawk. He looks like an amazing little boy now. My mother saw him (surprise!!) and she began thanking God in shock. My dad took a bit to realize what he was looking at.
He really does look so much better.
Next, I was reading a Bible plan on Youversion about debt and along with this changes theme, decided to pay off a 5k balance on one of my credit cards. I kept the other cards at zero, but this one through all of my compromises, and excuses was well on it's way to maxing out at 8k and there was just no good reason for it. The wicked borrow and do not repay. I don't want to be like that. So after sunset that same day I cut his hair, I paid my debt off.
During the week, I worked harder and smarter as it went on. By the end of the work week, I increased my productivity to 90%. It is still a challenge as a new person, but the Lord enabled me to get all that work done before the Sabbath with no regrets. I had some low points, but I decided to strengthen myself in the Lord. Satan tried to put people on my path and area to dishearten me, but I still came out on top.
So I thank the Lord for my son's wonderful new look. He is so handsome and amazing. Now if he wants a power to the people fro in the future, I can support him in that, but for now I'm going to play barber.
I thank the Lord for preventing that car from crashing into me. They decided they were going to get in my lane and didn't look to see that I owned it. We both were going about 55-60 mph.
I thank the Lord for showing me I can be debt free through smarter life choices.
I thank the Lord for getting me through this week and getting my son to that meeting where everyone could finally meet him. I met his teacher and she's great. He can write his alphabet, knows his alphabet (English and russian) numbers 1-20, all colors, several full length songs, shapes and names of other polygons, and has a dictionary full of words stored in his head. He will get help with his speech and I believe he will be more than ready to start kindergarten in a few years.
I am thankful for being able to get a lot of work done this week.
Thank you for all these things. The little things do mean a lot.
What are you thankful for?
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