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Round 4 - Day 36 – Love is God’s Word

“Commit to reading the Bible every day.  Find a devotional book or other resource that will give you some guidance.  If your spouse is open to it, see if they will commit to daily Bible reading with you.  Begin submitting each area of your life to its guidance and start building on the rock.”

Round four and new doors still open for the dares to be completed every day even if I think they have already been completed in the last rounds. Seek and knock—He answers! In round two I followed His direction to quit the Bible Study I was in since the OM’s sister was a part of it. Shortly thereafter I also started going to a different church that I pray one day my husband will be joining me at. I have yet to get plugged in to a new Bible Study. Once I read today’s dare He gave me direction that I need to move forward with joining another group even though I will not know anyone, so I put the request in to the leader of a ladies group that meets Wednesday evenings.

I went to my ed fair that lasted a few hours then went back to the hotel to relax for a little bit before going to a movie with my mom. My husband texted and called me this afternoon, which hasn’t happened since before he moved back in. Will be praying this overflows into when I get back from my trip.

When being on a journey such as this your eyes cannot help but be opened everyday to His blessings big and small. What may sound trivial to some and even dismissed as coincidence, I think not. The first is when my mom and I went to the movie. Typically I will get candy from a local convenience store and bring it into the movie. Due to trying to watch what I’ve been eating since not able to exercise like I normally do I opted not to. Sure enough the one and only time we have ever been asked to open our purses because it is policy—we had nothing to hide.

We then went to dinner afterwards. My mom and I have been trying to share entrees to save on cost. This evening was no different. Well, the restaurant forgot to add chicken into our chicken pesto, so they surprised us by cooking up another whole helping of pasta rather than just some chicken. We now had two entrees for the price of one. Since we have a mini fridge at the hotel we boxed up the leftovers to take back to our room. On the way back I felt led to share the leftovers with someone that needed it way more than my mom or I did. Across the street from our hotel was an older lady sitting down holding a sign. We crossed the street and I gave her the leftovers. Her face lit up and a big smile spread across it. My heart melted. Besides very rare moments of giving what little change I might have on me to someone that asks, I shamefully have never done anything like that before.

One of my new favorite quotes I think is fitting for how I am feeling right now—“Anyone who thinks that sunshine is pure happiness has never danced in the rain.”