It's The Little Things

I cannot let today pass without thanking God for the little things, for the sweet favors that so obviously were His doing, that made my life so much easier.

I got home very late - or should I say early, as in schoolbell early - in the morning today, and, after a couple of hours' sleep (on top of the two I'd had the night before), woke up in not quite the very best state of health. But what lovely news to wake up to: an important court case (my very last one, he he) won and a close girl friend I haven't been in contact with for many months wanting to share some girly talk about the one subject we could go hours on end about - boys. Actually, God first, boys a distant second. Teehee.

God probably knew that I needed some girly-sister-chika at this particular time, because another long-"lost" sister in Christ, now mired in the toxicity of working as a physician, also chose today to come up for air and to commence one of our famous kilometric-text-conversations about life, love, and the Lord (our actual conversations are even more intense). Just what I needed yet again, even if I hardly got any work work done today. Thank goodness for girl-chika...and these two sisters I can chika with like no other!

And then my computer started acting up just as I needed to finish up Father Steve's missalette for tomorrow's Mass, grrrr...It took me long enough (not exactly fun to translate from English to FatherStevefriendly-Tagalog) with my dearth of Tagalog vocabulary and lack of an English-Filipino dictionary, but with a splitting headache and the hammering going on inside the office (of all days!), it seemed like eternity. Finally, when I got home to print it out, my silly laptop would not cooperate and load Windows properly. After several "smart" attempts, I finally gave it up to the Lord. It's His word and His celebration after all! Even I can still hardly believe that right after I said a prayer, as in count 2 seconds...my computer creaks and comes back to life!!!! How amazing. :-) God's really looking out for me today.

Finally, I was supposed to photocopy the missalettes once printed, but because of final corrections and procrastination, I didn't get to leave until almost 10 pm. And of course by then no more photocopy places were open. So I have to do that early tomorrow morning!! But WAIT. God had a reason to keep me from reproducing the missalette...I read the Gospel again and EEEK! There was NO GOSPEL; I'd cut and pasted something else. He he, looks like He truly does not like being misquoted...But it's a good thing that He brought it to my attention when He did!

How sweet of the Lord to be so considerate of my needs even before I know what they are :-) He's my Provider and my Cornerstone, the Love of my life and the Joy of my morning...my God and my All.

And what a superduper celebration (neverending it seemed) it was last night; a party like no other :-) Praise God for that too!!

For all these and the littlest things that we forget to be grateful for...THANK YOU, Lord!