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Denise Searles ( Lady Dee)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Extra-Ordinary Blessings in Ordinary Things.....

When you think you are forgotten, alone, despondent and lost.....hope, courage, all gone...heart is failing, friends are few, and unfaithful....He remains ever faithful and true....



 Those of you who are near and familiar with me, know that in the last year, I have become something of a 'coupon freak'  gasp...LoL. Well approximately three weeks ago I was in desperate search of a coupon deal that was posted...for my fellow addicts...nothing gets the blood flowing and the adrenalin pumping like the next 'fix' especially when we see the flashing neon-light word "FREE". Such was my predicament when I saw the posting for the Johnathan Adler Cottonelle Bathroom Tissue container with roll of tissue included..for $1.99 with $2 ECB ( that means you get back $2 in store money)..and you could do this deal 4 times each card (It was rolling ....one ECB paid for the next item)....well I just had to have one, or two, or four. Yes, the word for it is obsession!



 I was practically livid that I hadn't seen the post until Thursday of that week...needless to say I went to my nearest CVS stores with no success. Did I give up?  Not a chance!  I doubled checked..."Do you have any in back? Will you get more in? I was disappointed every time I was looked at like I was from 'Mars', and  politely told,  "No".  Still undeterred, a week later I checked my nearest CVS stores again. As a last thought,  I decided to check one that I didn't go to very often. There was a gentleman working in the area stocking items. When I told him what I was looking for he took me to the Cottonelle flushable wipes...again I explained what I was looking for. A light bulb seemed to go off.  He went to the back and came out with the entire display container filled to capacity. He asked, "Is this what you're looking for? With a grin from ear to ear, I said, "Yes". He further explained that the display container was damaged during shipping, and they just didn't have any space to put the product..so it had been in the back for 2-3 weeks. I was able to get a total of 8 containers, share the 'find' so a friend could also get in on the deal, and then go back days later and score another 4. I know those who don't coupon think I've gone off the deep end...but my fellow coupon addicts understand the 'sickness'.


 Ummm. You're thinking...'Your point....?' Simple. God dropped in my spirit, how that what I was waiting for and desiring was already set apart and waiting on me. Hidden, out of sight, reserved Just for Me. No one else was able to claim it...it had been reserved for me alone, and those who were in relationship with me were also blessed because of it. In this simple, unimpressive event...God reminded me that even when things don't seem to be working the way I'd planned and hoped....that he still has a plan for my life...and He's working it out for my good. You may say it was a coincidence, or luck...there is no such thing! The odds were against me. The product had been out for weeks, it was not being re-stocked.  Any of you who live in the Summerville/Charleston area, know that couponing is serious business around here. It was a divine appointment! Yeah, I said that. I needed to be in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person. As it is in the natural, so it is in the spirit realm. Our destiny is not dependent on a person, but God uses people to accomplish his will in the earth.


 That being said...I had all but given up..just like the widow woman who had decided to use the last of her meal and make a cake for her and her son and then prepare to die- I was ready to give up! At that point, what I had been seeking was revealed! So even now when I feel weak, and tired...ready to eat my last cake and die...I am reminded of the extra-ordinary in the ordinary..and that at the end of my constant seeking, asking, knocking..the door that is purposed for me to walk through will manifest itself.  Sometimes even the simplest things God does brings tears to your eyes, and gratitude in your heart...I know it does mine...when I am reminded in that moment that I am the apple of his eye, and that his thoughts towards me are good.  Can you find the Extra-ordinary Blessing in the Ordinary Events in your life....What has he done for you lately?



1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.