My like has bee nreally unexpected lately. I realized that I have totally failed at keeping this blog. During this time of Lent I have been realizing a lot about myself, my realtionship with Christ, my plans for the future, and so much more.
I am such a failure. I have been a little depresssed lately too. I have been praying "God please help me to feel the joy I know comes from you."
Here is a way that I totally felt God's love and joy in an unxpected way.
Since moving on January 19th, (my 25th birthday) me and my best friend have been without a couch. She had one but it was in rough shape and why carry it up a flight of stairs if we are were going to get a new one anyway. So we had been living couchless. After I got my new bed, the twin size bed was moved to the living room as our make shift cough. For the record the twin size mattress was ancient, probally at least thrity years old and it was not the most confortable thing to sit on but it was better than the floor.
We had been actively looking for a couch. Found the perfect one at COSTCO but then it was discontinued. My roommate is 5'11 and would like to have couch that she could strech out on. We even went to IKEA found one but could not take the financail plundge. I even looked at yard sales and trift stores and still nothing that was what we wanted. While I had started a new job, and have active cash flow I had made some major purchases (a new bed and a new car) and needed to wait.
So here it was March and I figured it would be atleast a month if not longer until I found a couch or could afford it. Or so I though.
So last Friday my roommate and I were going to go to Hobby Lobby for some things. We go outside and right next to the dumpster that is about 6 parking spaces away from my car sits a couch. It's dark outside so Laura takes her phone and goes to take a look. I am oblivious to this happening and am already in my car, backing up and I see her looking at this couch. Turns out it was in perfect shape, no wierd stains, no wierd /smokey smell. And it even has a chaise (something we wanted)
After about 30 miniutes trying to get into our apartment. There it was, in out house. Almost the exact couch we wanted to buy but totally free.
God is funny that way. He gave us a couch, but that is not the end of the story. I had been feeling pretty depressed. New city, not that many friends here, mom has cancer I was just depressed. I had been wanting to have people over for a movie night but how can you have a movie night with no couch. But now here it was. Last weekend my little sister just happened to be coming to SA.
After going to mass at 5:30 on Sunday and seeing my former teammate Zach. Somehow we all decided to come back to our apartment, eat and watch my new favorite movie "Wreck IT Ralph" on our new couch. It actually turned out to be one of the best nights I have had in a long time. It was exactly what my heart needed.
It's funny how God answers your prayers.
