12 days and counting....

  After having week after week of mishaps since December 7 ,our luck has turned, today was an awesome day.   I mean it, we were plagued with let's say  some" unfortunate events" that kept us from being able to get ready for our mission trip. Our basement flooded, the crews working on it left  Dec 28. We got sick , my brother had an emergency gall bladder surgery and although not a contagious condition  three weeks later our grandson had an emergency gall bladder surgery! Last week our son had sinus surgery and Sunday we got  a  ticket for driving a truck with expired tags ( we had borrowed the truck to take stuff to our storage !!!.)...and the court date was set for March 8 , more than a week after our departure for Honduras!

Like I said  today was an awesome day!
It started with coffee with my good friend, Christine, where she prayed over me , that I would always feel a voice behind me and to know that it was our Lord's voice. Christine is an awesome woman and we enjoyed being co-workers for over five years. She is an inspiration for all those around her. Thank you Christine for all your wise words of encouragement!
After that, Hernan and I had a meeting with  Father Cook, our pastor, and we couldn't have asked for more. He prayed over us and reassured us that we will be in our parish prayers. It was an amazing feeling to be blessed and sent forth with so much love and  encouragement. Thank you Father , you don't know how much your blessing means to us. We will keep St. Leo the Great and its parishioners  in our hearts while we are away.
Then we went by the District Attorney's office to see what they could do with the ticket, since the truck's owner had already complied with  the requisites, and lo and behold they were able to dismiss the ticket! Alleluia!!
To top it all off. Hernan and I went to my former place of employment ( the free clinic where he also volunteered) to say good bye to our friends there and we were blessed with a lot of supplies that they did not need and could not use. I mean now I have glucometers!!! And believe me for a Diabetes Educator a glucometer is a necessity. We also got some prenatal vitamins  and some glucose tablets for those patients on Insulin.
What an awesome God! I need to keep this feeling in my heart and make it last....it was an awesome day and now Hernan and I are off to sort out the supplies and start packing.  12 days and counting......