Prayer answers

Wednesday was another simple answer to prayer that gave me a huge lift. I prayed simply that my son would want to go back down to Rocky Mount to work on the house we are flipping. We have been working on the house for five months and as we get closer to finishing, we get distracted so easily. Finally, at 10:00 or so Wedenesday night, he called and said that he and my granddaughter would love to go down to RM Thursday and work. The simple little answers to prayer that God gives us each day motivates us to continue down the path to obedience. We might question, but He will answer and provide if we simply trust.

Thursday was a little dumber on my part, but if we don't reach out, we will always fall short. I asked, simply, that all we did would be successful and work out safely and well. We had a lot of small stuff to get done, and I always forget the limitations that time puts on us.We drove the 90 minutes to RM but it took us115 minutes, so we were off our schedule before we ever got there. Somehow, we sanded the skim coating on the skylight and ceiling in the bathroom, painted 2 coats of Kilz and one coat of ceiling paint. We also painted the doors on the sun room closet, installed the racks and shelves, and touched up scuffs we had made in the previously painted walls. We cleaned up the dryer filter and painted the walls again ( boy, we must have rushed through that the first time), and put a temporary fix on the drain. We (notice how I take credit for all work done) took down the track in the smaller bedroom so we could re-install the folding doors, painted this closet, and tried to install the clothes rack (once again, however, we had not planned for a sloped closet wall). Brittany and her dad painted wood work and identified new places for me to caulk. One of my neighbors had cut 4" limbs off a couple of my pine trees and laid them neatly in my yard; so, I had no choice but to break off the many limbs and put them in the Yard Waste can for Friday pickup (laborious tasks Rose trusts me to do). The four of us stopped on the way home and had Bojangles chicken for dinner, and pleasant conversation and plans for the next time. My shoulder, which I did not mention to the Lord, did not bother me somehow until I lay down Thursday night; sometimes we just don't even see how He helps us without our asking. I am more than pleased with what we got done and can only praise the Lord for minimizing my mistakes and helping us all to stay out of Rose's way as we worked!