welcome home

have you ever had this happen to you before? you go out of town and a friend asks for your key so that she can go clean your house, as a gift to you (first of all, that's NEVER happened to me.... before now). so you go on your merry way, enjoy your time with family, then start driving home knowing how nice it will be that your place will be clean when you get there. you get home, it's amazing the work that your sweet friends have done for you, you walk in and it smells good but you're thinking maybe the "baby"sitter made supper for himself before we got home and that's what your smelling. oh no!!! we walk in and you can actually see the top of our dining room table with a lovely arrangement of flowers, our "blessing" rocks, and a candle. step into the bathroom and there is a gorgeous gigantic rose just waiting to be smelled and enjoyed! walk a little further into the kitchen and bright yellow flowers greet you, along with the smell of your very own supper in the oven. and this is no frozen dinner, dear friends, oh no! we're talking about meatloaf topped with bacon, scalloped potatoes and baked apples for dessert. my friend gail does not fool around when it comes to food - and we have been on the grateful end of that many times! it was just amazing to come home to all of this - such a gift! my two sweet friends, gail and sherri, cleaned our house - their hearts are amazing and their servants spirit is humbling. this was such a gift - and the flowers and supper were just the icing on the cake!

isn't that just like the Lord? blessing us in ways we would never expect or dream of. if you had asked me or ed on our 6 hr journey back to st. louis if we thought that supper would be waiting for us in the oven, along with flowers to brighten our home ON TOP OF an already spotless house because of the love and effort they put into it........i would have to say that was the farthest thing from our mind. which is just another reason it was such a gift! precious, precious friends - Jesus with skin on ministering to us, demonstrating "love in the Spirit."