A Trip To Big Lots
I feel like a shopper now!!!! Yep, I took the stroll through Big Lots! Actually, I went to Shop n'Save to pick up a head of lettuce for my Gorditas that I fixed for Ryan and I and saw Big Lots looming large before me. I had a purpose. I prayed, "Lord, please let there be something in there that will work for my needs!"
My needs are for Grandma. She has trouble getting in her bed. We took the frame out and let the boxsprings and mattress sit on the floor but that made it too low and besides that, she needs that area under the bed to get her feet around the bed without tripping. So, then I put it back on the frame which made it too high again. I thought if I could find a utility stool of some kind maybe that would work. As I went through the store, searching every aisle, what to my wondering eyes should appear but Katie and Kelcee, who ran and gave me big hugs. So sweet!!! I love those bus kids. They informed me that they and their smaller siblings had made me a Bible box! You have to appreciate that those little ones are expressing their love for you and your grieving in the best way they know how. It was very uplifting because Katie had gotten mad at me one time and decided she wasn't going to ride the bus anymore but then had come back. Kelcee is usually there every Sunday. I still need to search my heart about the bus ministry. I loved doing it and it was the most rewarding thing I have ever done but it was very stressful physically with backaches and an ankle sprained MANY years ago that continues to act up now. I also found that recently I had been so tired from the all day visitation on Saturday and the early arising on Sunday morning that I could hardly grasp a sermon.
I have issues with Grandma also. She quit coming to church, she recently divulged to me, because no one was there to help her out and she was afraid she was going to fall and break a hip. The truth was, Mike counted money on Sunday morning which usually took about 30 minutes. All she needed to do was sit and visit with the other ladies whose husbands were counting money and then Mike would have helped her out but she wanted to go home and try to get lunch on the table early. I usually wasn't home before 1:30 to 2:00. She thought that was too late to be eating lunch and Mike wouldn't let her eat before I got home. I am thinking that maybe I can get her to come back and I think she would feel much better.
Well, back to Big Lots!! After I visited with the kids and their parents for a while, I made another run through the store, searching every nook and cranny and lo and behold, there sitting on top of a bin of close out items was a tiny square stool that was padded. It was tall enough to give a little height and yet short enough to push under the bed! AND........................it was on sale for $3.00!! I have to wait for Grandma to get up this morning to see if it worked. God's works amaze me sometimes!!
Psalm 42:8
"Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life."
My needs are for Grandma. She has trouble getting in her bed. We took the frame out and let the boxsprings and mattress sit on the floor but that made it too low and besides that, she needs that area under the bed to get her feet around the bed without tripping. So, then I put it back on the frame which made it too high again. I thought if I could find a utility stool of some kind maybe that would work. As I went through the store, searching every aisle, what to my wondering eyes should appear but Katie and Kelcee, who ran and gave me big hugs. So sweet!!! I love those bus kids. They informed me that they and their smaller siblings had made me a Bible box! You have to appreciate that those little ones are expressing their love for you and your grieving in the best way they know how. It was very uplifting because Katie had gotten mad at me one time and decided she wasn't going to ride the bus anymore but then had come back. Kelcee is usually there every Sunday. I still need to search my heart about the bus ministry. I loved doing it and it was the most rewarding thing I have ever done but it was very stressful physically with backaches and an ankle sprained MANY years ago that continues to act up now. I also found that recently I had been so tired from the all day visitation on Saturday and the early arising on Sunday morning that I could hardly grasp a sermon.
I have issues with Grandma also. She quit coming to church, she recently divulged to me, because no one was there to help her out and she was afraid she was going to fall and break a hip. The truth was, Mike counted money on Sunday morning which usually took about 30 minutes. All she needed to do was sit and visit with the other ladies whose husbands were counting money and then Mike would have helped her out but she wanted to go home and try to get lunch on the table early. I usually wasn't home before 1:30 to 2:00. She thought that was too late to be eating lunch and Mike wouldn't let her eat before I got home. I am thinking that maybe I can get her to come back and I think she would feel much better.
Well, back to Big Lots!! After I visited with the kids and their parents for a while, I made another run through the store, searching every nook and cranny and lo and behold, there sitting on top of a bin of close out items was a tiny square stool that was padded. It was tall enough to give a little height and yet short enough to push under the bed! AND........................it was on sale for $3.00!! I have to wait for Grandma to get up this morning to see if it worked. God's works amaze me sometimes!!
Psalm 42:8
"Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life."
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