Great Day

Okay, so the other day I tried 3 times to post here, and every stinking time it deleted the post, the draft, everything. So I'm going to try again now.

Every day last week I had asked God that the next day He would send someone to me that would help with the education center, and every day He had been faithful to provide. I had hooked up with a woman to do breastfeeding classes, a woman to do CPR classes and someone to teach babysitting courses. Then Thursday God decided to totally shake things up.

In the morning I had a meeting with Community Marriage Builders to let them know what we were doing and to eventually arrange pre-marital counseling and marriage enrichment classes. That was all well and good, but it was really exciting when as I was leaving one of their instructors caught me and asked if I would be interested in hooking up with him on a youth counseling program his church is starting in Evansville. Of course the answer was "YES!!!". So that was super awesome.

Then, later that afternoon I had a meeting with Warrick Adult Literacy Counsel. I had been praying hard about this meeting, that good things would come of it, and God delivered in a HUGE way. First of all I got great news from one of the members from the Chamber of Commerce about contacting their members to let them know about our job center.
Then I got two boxes of adult literacy material from a local librarian. Then I got a free bookshelf. Then I got, which I still can not believe, probably over $1,000 dollars worth of textbooks, adult readers, English as Second Language material, GED preparation books, and job focused education books. I was so overwhelmed that I just got in the car and bawled for about 10 minutes. Sometimes God is just so close that it humbles me to the point that I can't even function. I was reminded of David, when in one of his Psalms he asked God to back off because His presence was just too much. (I have obviously paraphrased here!)
Then when I was already so high, God sent someone to send me to the moon. A lady whom I had been trying to get hold of had just happened to call the head of the literacy council. (She is in charge of teaching local GED and Adult Basic Education classes.)They told her that I had been attempting to contact her, and she called right away. Her phone had been acting up, but she was very interested in helping. She immediately offered to help teach me a program that I need to know, for free. She also offered to help out with English as Second Language classes. So I cried again when I got off the phone.

I'm going to be truthful and tell you that I have been discouraged about this whole deal in the past weeks. It is such a gigantic undertaking, and everyone expects me to be an educator, or a community leader, or a wealthy philanthropist. But I am none of those things. I am a middle class 23 year old without a bachelors degree and no reputation to speak of. I had even started to wonder if I was even supposed to be doing this, or if I had just misunderstood the message. Thursday God clarified for me that I am doing exactly what he instructed. Doors have been opened. I can't even number the times I just "happened" to meet the EXACT person I needed to know. Things that I never dreamed of being able to do on my own have been put into action because I have a God that is HUGE and ABLE to do ALL things. Even if all He has to work with is me!!!

So that was my great day. Of course later that night I paid for it because Satan just could not have the Kingdom of God advance so much in one day. He couldn't get to me, I was too into God, so he went at Sophie and she was up hurting and crying until about 1:30 in the morning. So I just prayed for her and read Scripture out loud to her, and eventually she went to sleep. I just wasn't going to let him ruin my day. So that is that. That was my awesome day. Just thought you all should know!