My Glorious!

If you aren't familiar with the song My Glorious by Delirious (or Chris Tomlin), the chorus reads:

God is bigger than the air I breathe, this world I'll leave.
God will save the day, and all will say, "My Glorious!"

How true those words are, and they hit me at 4 a.m. this morning.

If you've been following my regular blog, my last post here, or my Facebook page, you'll see we're moving back to civilization. It's been an incredible journey for me spiritually - from Thanksgiving til now, and it's not over yet. I went from miserable depression and loneliness, to the happiest I've been in a couple of years. And it's all because God stepped in, again.

Here's a quick overview to recap:
1. Thanksgiving Day I woke up feeling lonely, depressed about the loss of so many friends and having no family of my own, and no church family close enough to spend time with on a regular basis.
2. I asked God if He would be willing to step in and change things for us and I would agree to follow and trust, wherever those changes led.
3. God put a plan in motion that resulted in my husband's willingness to change careers, go back to school for a month (while working 3rd shift on his days off, 200 miles away, riding a motorcycle in 30 degree weather/rain/snow showers to save money), and a full scholarship/grant to pay for trucking school. This goes WAY against his normal comfort zone.
4. Of all the company's Tim was looking at to work for, God brought Roehl out of the woodwork for us. I prayed for him to shut down and block all the wrong opportunities and make HIS choice clear, and make that path wide open so we couldn't miss it.
5. Roehl turned out to offer the best pay, best home time, best family-friendly attitude, and shortest training schedule so Tim could start making money as a solo driver sooner.
6. God then turned these events into an opportunity to move back to the city where I now believe (and did 2 years ago as well), that we were never supposed to leave. I believe He brought us to Mesa for a purpose and leaving was Tim's plan, not God's.
7. A friend then blessed us with her and her husband's resources totally out of the blue by offering us an unbelievable deal on renting a home from them. We're getting a 1672 sf home, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, wonderful yard, at the end of a cul-de-sac, just a few blocks from everything we need, for about 1/3 less than they could easily have rented it out for. Then they offered to totally remodel and renovate - new kitchen, new master bath, yard work, new tile, new paint throughout, the works. I pray God blesses everything they touch in a mighty way.

Then at 4 a.m. I realized just how personal this is getting, and how truly blessed we are with God handling our provision in the transition. Tim & I were talking today and trying to figure out how in the world we ended up with a small paycheck of about $150 when he shouldn't have actually received anything for the week after orientation. The company, through a series of "ball dropping" managed to turn his 1 day off before on-the-job training into 5 1/2 days of sitting, waiting, and not getting paid. Anyway, when we looked at the paystub online, we saw the company had put some reimbursements in his automatic deposit paycheck instead of on the usual reimbursement card like they had been doing. We couldn't figure out why those things were paid completely different than anything we'd seen before. Then at 4 a.m. it hit me! God once again was providing.

You see, we had our van renewal due the day after payday and needed about $100 for that, and we owed now $50 for tithing, since we didn't have the gas money to make it into town for church last week (due to some necessary trips in earlier in the week). Had the company not made what looks like a mistake, we wouldn't have had the money we needed to renew the one vehicle we drive everywhere and need to keep on the road legally. Any driving/auto related problems really can hurt Tim now that he's a commercial driver - driving w/o insurance, a ticket for going through red lights, accidents, they all hurt his career now. So I believe God stepped in, the company did something out of the ordinary, at just the right time, and we were able to pay the one bill that was due immediately and was very important.

I woke up out of a sound sleep and my very first thought was, "Oh! God did that! THAT'S why the company did something so strange!" Where else would that come from since I was sound asleep just moments before?

God will save the day, and I will say, "My Glorious!"