Little Miracles

   Three days ago, as I was spending time with God, I was writing down all that I felt He was saying to me that morning. I was hoping He would say something about India, yet I felt Him start talking about something else. Here is a part of what I wrote in my journal that day, that I felt He was saying-

"I love that you notice the little things, and they are also some of my favorite things in our relationship. Healing and miracles are great, but these little things are the more intimate and personal parts of a relationship."

   After I wrote about this I remembered the rain stopping for all my photo shoots this past week, like I wrote about in my last blog post. (Oh, and it happened again since then, when me and my brother made a quick Walmart trip. We went in Walmart, and it began to thunder and pour when we were inside. We thought our cookout was ruined for the night, and we had no umbrellas... yet when we came out the rain stopped again! So we didn't get wet going in or coming out!) :)

Anyways, that journal entry was 3 days ago... 

But yesterday I had two very strange 'little things' happen to me... more like 'little miracles. 

And they may be kinda silly, but I loved it!

      Saturday, I was suppose to drop off a signed release at a lady named Suzanne's house. I was so busy I didn't get them printed until that night, so I promised I'd drop it off on Sunday. Yesterday (Sunday), I went to church, and had so much on my mind (getting stuff together for children's church, & stuff for an India meeting) that I forgot about the signed release, even though I had them printed and in my car from the night before. After church I went back to my moms house to drop off my little brother and get my things, then started home to my house. As I left my moms I called my friend and roommate, Erica. She didn't answer, and about 10 minutes later I receive a text from Suzanne saying "I'm working at a birthday party". At first I thought, "that's a strange text..." But then immediately after that I remembered "Oh my goodness I'm suppose to drop off the signed release!" Luckily, timing was perfect because I was pulling onto the road that she lives off of. So I pulled over and texted her back saying "Ok! What's your address so I can just put the paper in your mailbox".

As I waited for a reply I began to think, 'why did she send me that birthday text out of the blue?' So I looked at my call history, thinking I may have accidentally called her instead of Erica when I left my moms. But my call history said my last call was to Erica. So then I opened up the texts under Suzanne's name, and saw that the previous texts (before the bday party text) were texts I sent to Erica that morning... and I specifically remember it being Erica's name in my phone. 

So I sent another text saying "Is this Erica or Suzanne?" And got back "Erica". 

So, to make a long story short, I called Suzanne and dropped of the release. But I would have most likely forgotten again if that weird text mishap didn't happen! lol.

I dunno how that happened, so I really think it was a reminder from God. :)

      The second little miracle yesterday happened after I got home. I was super tired, so I turned on Netflix on my desktop computer and started watching The Office. I got in bed, and after about 2 episodes I was about to fall asleep. Now, I'm NOT a nap person... I can't tell you the last time I actually took a nap, but I was so tired I didn't want to even get out of bed to pause Netflix (bc I can't sleep with a TV on). I layed there and thought, 'I wish I had a remote for my computer', and with that thought I put a pillow over my head to muffle the noise. 

      As soon as I put the pillow over my head, the noise from the computer stopped (and pillows don't muffle THAT much). After about a minute I looked up, wondering what was going on that there was no noise on the tv... and I saw that Netflix had been paused!! The very second I put the pillow over my head, Netflix paused the TV show I was watching. Again, this is kinda silly, but I think it's just God being crazy awesome!!! So I said "Thank you Lord!" And took a nice, much needed hour nap!

These are the little things I love in my relationship with God...

It's times like these, no matter how silly they sound, that I just feel a very personal love from Him.