So many blessings

Life has been crazy busy here lately and I am so looking forward to this week being over,not so much for myself but for Chris who is doing finals this week so he has of course been stressed and it seems like everything else is needing to be done this week on top of finals (but life is always like that,isn't it? When it rains it pours).
But despite the busyness of life we have been incredibly blessed here lately,I need to be better about recording my blessings so I will share a few here.

First off we are incredibly blessed to have another vehicle which is heaps more fuel efficient then our Suburban.We kept looking for a Honda or a Toyota but even for older vehicles they were a bit pricey so a friend of ours (and our mechanic) was saying how good Saturns are,they are nothing special but he has owned 5 of them and has not had any big problems with them so we starting looking at Saturns and very quickly found a 2002 Saturn which was in our price range and had low mileage,plus it was very fuel efficient. So we bought it and now  it is getting some repairs and we are *hopefully* going to be getting it this weekend which we are very excited about.:)
Another huge blessing as far as the vehicle goes is that Dan (they guy who is fixing it up for us) was able to find all of the body panel parts for the car that we need for the price of what one would of cost new,talk about a huge blessing for us and we will be saving A LOT of money thanks to that blessing.

Another huge blessing is that we got some reimbursement for school so we set that aside and now how our emergency fund set up as well as 3-6 months of savings so that is pretty exciting.We may not have much but at least we have money in the bank which is a good feeling.:) 


I am also very,very blessed with a fabulous husband,sure we have our fights and we both are not anywhere close to perfect,but he is very sweet and always tells me that what makes him happy is when I am happy,and he really means it.:) Today my darling husband tried to get up ever so quietly and turned off my alarm so I could sleep in and then he was going to make me breakfast in bed but I got up too soon.
I feel incredibly blessed to have such a sweet and thoughtful husband,God is good!

Zion for others

Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee; or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 41 And the king shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' Matthew 25:35-41

Chris and I read this passage of scripture in our devotions this morning as we are going through the New Testament together (we started the reading in Matthew the day we got married and have been pretty diligent in reading every morning,I hope we continue to keep it up!).It is always fascinating to me how with God their is no coincidences and how after reading that in the scriptures today and then coming across this website http://www.hopechest.org/sex_cafe-in-moldova/
which is insight-fully and yet horrible at the same time.To think that these poor innocent girls are sold into such a horrible lifestyle and against their will! To think that all of this is done in the name of greed and lust.It is disgusting and it is all to real.

With reading that article and watching 'Blood Diamonds' last night it makes you realize how much wickedness their really is in the world,something that at times I can almost block out because I have been so blessed and have seen a lot of good.And when you read such things it makes me want to do something to make it better and while I can send money,heighten the awareness,etc, I know that the greatest thing I can do in my life is to seek to bring Zion and to work towards establishing it here on this earth because only then will the greed,corruption and great wickedness stop.Only when we are living by the Celestial laws will things be as they should,as God created and only then will the tears of sorrow cease and will be replaced by joy.

So as I ponder what has been laid on my heart today I realize that their is a whole world dying for the light of what I so selfishly hide and that not for myself should I seek Zion but for others,for the young girls who have their innocence stripped from them,for the children who know nothing but hate and war and for a world that turns a blind eye to these things and does little to change them.