(Holy) Sugar Daddy

This'll be quick, but I wanted to give a bit of encouragement to any of you who might be questioning how your bills will be paid and your children's mouths will be fed. I could tell you all day that He who created you is able to do above and beyond provision of basic need, but until He shows up and breathes life into the words, they fall on deaf ears. He blows! ;)

Last week, I had a quarter to my name after I THOUGHT that I emptied my wallet into the offering at Emanate (a gathering of young Jesus lovers that meet at Grace Center in Franklin, TN each Monday at 7:30). Then, I found out that the initial tax-return projection of -$180 was corrected to +$2,200! Then, I went out of town to see my grandparents for the weekend and escorted my grandpa to the bank where I simply thought he was making a standard deposit or withdrawal, but left with an envelope of $50s totaling +$1,000! Then, went to MO that night to see my other Granny who tucked another $50 bill into my hand! All that topped off by another few hundred dollars about to be deposited into my account by my daughter's father from across the country.

He told me He would provide. He did. He does. All day. Everyday. Thank You Abba for being You, beyond finances, You are Faithful! I have no reason to doubt the presence of Your plans in my life. You are here. You are alive. Very alive.

New Thoughts From Old Thoughts

The Haftarah reading from Ezekiel 22 indicts Israel for failing to obey the Torah of Moses and consequently invokes the judgment of the LORD, which includes the Diaspora of the Jewish people:

"I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

Notice, however, that the purpose of the Diaspora is to "consume the uncleanness" out of the Jewish people, and therefore is ultimately restorative.