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Happy Sabbath

I thank the Lord that my son is making a fantastic recovery from his procedure.  He was able to return to school on Wednesday this week and is caught up with his school work and healing well. 

I took him to church today for the first time in weeks.  First he wanted to stay with the grandparents and then he was sick and had to stay home.  Then the procedure.  He missed a lot.   I brought him to the church where my membership currently stands and I thought we would stay and listen to a group of youth from this academy I wanted to send my son to.  I received a call and a text message from a sister from my favorite church asking if I could help with the piano.  I decided to grab our coats and head over there because I wasn’t feeling the anxiety of parents and the academy bell choir teacher rushing about to put on an elaborate production.  I came to hear the word of God so I took my son over to the other church. 

When there I discovered that this church was almost as packed as the one I left and members from my church were over there.  Someone broke the piano pedal and I did what I could with it.  I had a good worship experience there. 

My son behaved 70 percent of the time.  I am glad I didn’t have to spank him and following the service, we stopped over at my parent’s house 3 houses down from the church.  My son had lunch, we hugged my parents and sister who was visiting for the day and headed home.

This week has not been too bad at work.  I was able to get a few things done for my clients and thank the Lord I was safe out on the road. 

The biggest highlight is that I was able to come home.  Since my son’s procedure, I was camping out at my parents and was tired of staying there.  My dad was looking at my heating system and installed a filter and cleaned it.  As a result, the heat is staying on and we have been enjoying comfortable temperatures in the house.  That was one thing I really hoped for but knew I didn’t have the money in place or time to address it and the Lord used my dad to fix something that would have cost me oodles of money with a heating/plumber service.    Perhaps now my energy bill will read true for the season.  I had a bill so ridiculous last month and that was due to the space heaters I had to use to keep only 2 rooms warm when we were in them.

I’m glad to be home.  I'm glad that my son is watching a movie about the Bible (main Bible stories) and is showing interest in it now.  He would typically rather play Pacman or some other game but I don't want him doing this on Sabbath. I’m glad that the Lord can use me at church.  I’m glad that my son is healing and back to his normal activities.  I’m thankful for peace and quiet, good food, clothing, and my basic needs being met. 

That’s my testimony for the week.