the EnErGiZeR bunny and our A.bundant A.bba

As much as the I felt like the wolrd stopped and paused for two days, Ben was completely the opposite.
The second day he worked for 18 hours straight - and continued to work a crazy amount of hours for the next 3 days following as well. Plowing, salting, and de-icing is his specialty. Not only did he have the usual customers, but since snow blowers weren't working, the ice wasn't melting, and people didn't want to spend HOURS chipping away at the literal inches of ice, they called and waved down my husband continuously. He would be in the middle of one, get a call for one another, then be done with it and a neighbor or two would walk over and ask him to do theirs as well! It was insane. Pure insanity.
He was like the engergizer bunny - he kept going and going and going and going without seeing an end in sight all the way from early Wednesday morning at 3:30am until 2 am Sunday morning. I am so thankful for his hard work - I went with him here and there but had no where near his dedication to the job. What a hard-working man Ben is. He seized the opportunity God gave him.
The coolest part of the story to me is that our Father, our Abba, our Lord provided for us through all of this crazy weather and He provided ABUNDANTLY.
Just a week earlier Ben and I were talking about our finanaces. February was going to be tight, and I mean tight like we can't pay all of our bills tight. Ben didn't have a "back-up" plan for how we were going to make the money we needed for the month. There was nothing we could do - we were at the end of our financial rope - we could only cling to the Lord.
To be honest, I was EXCITED! I was SO excited that God was about to take us an adventure; an adventure of trusting Him. That we were going to get to see God move and provide for us some how some way because that is WHO our Papa is! He promises to take care of us, always! And I was excited to see just what He would do. God gave me peace that went far beyond the circumstance we found ourselves in.
Not one week after our conversation, BAM! God provided for us. 3 1/2 inches of pure ice on the ground, then snow on top of that with no sign of it melting. All within the first two days of February. Three days after the snow when we were supposed to get maybe an inch sprinkled on us, BAM! 4.5 inches were on the ground. TALK ABOUT ABUNDANTLY PROVIDING FOR HIS CHILDREN! ALL of this was in the first five days of February but perfectly on time.
Talk about something to continually praise the Lord for. He took care of us. In His grace and in His way He was faithful to His promise to us. Talk about something to grow our faith in! We serve a mighty God, a faithful God - a wonderful Creator. The Prince of Peace. The PROVIDER of our NEEDS.
I'm starting a journal on how God has provided for us abundantly, faithfully, over and over again even just in our one and a half years of marraige. Add that one to the books.

Resting and being taken care of by the faithful, loving, abundantly giving & providing Father,
B & J