Well…I hope you are ready for this one!\u00a0<\/p>\n
This past\u00a0Tuesday morning I was obviously so tired from all our activity over the weekend and had not yet recovered so I was not able to think clearly.\u00a0 I was taking my dog (Nissi-miniature Schnauzer) out to potty after she finished eating and Tony (my husband) was headed out for work at the same time.\u00a0 I decided just to head out the back door with him and said goodbye, yet there was this sinking feeling in my stomach and something just said – go out the front door with her like you usually do, but of course….I ignored the thought.\u00a0 (Big mistake!)\u00a0 While Nissi and I were in the back yard Tony was about to get in the car and it dawned on me that he might accidental forget I was out there and put the garage door down as he drove off leaving me locked out of the house with no form of communication.\u00a0 So – I did what any other reasonable person would do.\u00a0 I hollered up the hill and ask Tony to please leave the door up so I could get back in the house which he was happy to do.\u00a0 Well, as fate would have it, his mind\u00a0was on the busy day before him and in about 20 seconds flat he has forgotten my request and hit the button for the garage door as I am still in the backyard with Nissi.\u00a0 I hear the door going down and see that he is about to be to the street so I tear off running like some mad woman waving my arms in the air and screaming, “Tony!!!”.\u00a0 Yea – I know….not a pretty site!\u00a0 At least it was not a Sunday morning when I would have just had in my robe!\u00a0 Thankfully I was planning on doing a short run so I had put on my running shorts and top but I still had flip flops on and it is pretty difficult to sprint up hill in flip flops while waving your arms in the air and shouting.\u00a0 Well, I gave it my best effort and was probably just about 5 seconds off from catching him.\u00a0 I thought he might fiddle with his phone or GPS or something but not on this day.\u00a0 As I got to the stop sign he had just turned from the next street and my fate was sealed!\u00a0 I envisioned myself sitting on my back porch with Nissi from 7:30 in the morning until 6:30 in the evening.\u00a0 Within an instant I am rehearsing thoughts like, “Gee, I’m glad she has eaten already….at least we have cool water from the water hose to drink…I guess I’ll be potty-ing in the woods today….etc…”\u00a0 As I was still running with the fumes of the exhaust from Tony’s car already evaporating I came face to face with this lady out walking.\u00a0 The expression on my face must have been one of panic because I think I frightened her a bit.\u00a0 She ask me if anything was wrong and could she help me.\u00a0 As soon as I could catch my breath I ask if she had a cell phone and she did.\u00a0 Thank the Lord for cell phones!!\u00a0 I was trying to call Tony quickly as he was heading to a clients office on the other side of Atlanta.\u00a0 I knew if I couldn’t get him then my chances would be hopeless for getting back in the house until he came home that evening.\u00a0 Well….wouldn’t you know, I couldn’t remember his cell number!\u00a0 See, we have these engenious little things built into our cell phones called “Contact Lists” and we no longer memorize numbers!\u00a0 I couldn’t even remember his parent’s numbers, my good friends number or anything!\u00a0 Strangly, I could only remember my office number!\u00a0 I tried calling that and leaving a message for Rebecca, our Office Manager hoping that she could call Tony as soon as she got in and maybe he could come home during lunch and let me in.\u00a0 This would also mean that Rebecca would have to cancel my morning appointments.\u00a0 I was just fit to be tied.\u00a0 It is not like me to panic in emergency situations but on this day I just lost my head!\u00a0 After leaving a very long message for Rebecca, wonder upon wonder….I remember Tony’s cell number!\u00a0 I was so relieved!\u00a0 When he gets on the phone and I share my plight he was so sympathic and apologized profusly for putting the door down, but….he then ever so gently reminds me of that little steal gadget that is coded and has a spare key inside!!!\u00a0 UGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u00a0 I felt like a crazy women!!!\u00a0 I thanked him for his help….I’m sure he was laughing on the inside, but to his honor he saved me some dignity.\u00a0\u00a0If\u00a0he did laugh, he\u00a0never let me know it and then I said my goodbye and let him get back to the task of work.\u00a0 The lady that was allowing me to use her cell phone\u00a0walks down to my house with me to help me find Nissi because I tore off like a banchie and left her in the back yard.\u00a0 Bless her heart….she was sitting on the front porch waiting for me.\u00a0 She must know her mother is insane sometimes!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, I share this with you because a huge spiritual truth hit me as I came back inside.\u00a0 I was laughing at myself first and then told the Lord that He would really blow me away if He had something to show me out of this situation and immediatly it hit me!\u00a0 2 Peter 1:3 “…seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.”\u00a0 Christ is all we need and if we are Christians then we already have all we need for any situation that we face.\u00a0 All the provision, power, love, compassion, patience, strength, self control etc….that we need in this life has already been given to us.\u00a0 Christ meets all of our needs!\u00a0 Why then do we go chasing after what we think will satisfy and either it remains just out of our reach or we get what we are chasing only to find that it doesn’t completely fulfill us so the chase continues.\u00a0 All that I need as a child of God I already possess.\u00a0 As a Christian, I have the answer and that answer is in the person of Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thank you God for being my everything!<\/p>\n
Dana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well…I hope you are ready for this one!\u00a0 This past\u00a0Tuesday morning I was obviously so tired from all our activity over the weekend and had not yet recovered so I was not able to think clearly.\u00a0 I was taking my dog (Nissi-miniature Schnauzer) out to potty after she finished eating and Tony (my husband) was headed out for work at the same time.\u00a0 I decided just to head out the back door with him and said goodbye, yet there was this sinking feeling in my stomach and something just said – go out the front door with her like you usually do, but of course….I ignored the thought.\u00a0 (Big mistake!)\u00a0 While Nissi and I were in the back yard Tony was about to get in the car and it dawned on me that he might accidental forget I was out there and put the garage door down as he drove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}