Today I asked God for grace

This morning, when I prayed for some reason I asked God for grace to face all that I would face today. This isn't something I normally pray for, but I guess God knew I needed to ask for it for today.

The day started out good, breakfast on the deck with Jim. Then it was time to hit the basement and do some cleaning down there. I threw out the crib that Tonja and Eric used as a baby. I have to tell you, it choked me up. No one would keep there baby is such a crib as that these days as the government has deemed that the slots on that crib are not close enough. Anyway, that was hard to do. But I did get rid of a bunch of other stuff and found some stuff I had been missing. Then it was time to run some errands,,, here is where Grace is beginning to come into need. I went to Costco to pick up a prescription. Now I know they close from noon to 1 so I was there at 2:00 only to find out they had just LEFT for lunch... well I didn't let it get me upset, there is always another day. So I had 2 more stops to make and the sky's were looking more and more threatening so I decided to fore go Target and hit that later. So when I got home I made dinner and some more laundry and called my sister. That phone call revealed to me that the rooms I thought that we had reserved for the family reunion next weekend, are not available as my nieces husband had rented them out. (My niece and her husband run a hotel) So grace almost wasn't enough. I told my sister, well, maybe we wont come, if we don't have a place to stay as this old hen is not about to sleep in a tent!!! But then she said that my niece found out about a house that is for rent and is furnished so we can rent that. I hope that it is big enough to get Jim and I and the rest of my family which amounts to 6 adults and 5 children. But I am sure we will make it work.

Well then it was time to go to Target. I was in the store about 15 min when they announced that there was a tornado warning for Champlin and we were all to go to the back of the store until an all clear was issued. So there I sat with my stuff in my cart hearing the wind blowing the thunder and the rain and not be able to see out. This was the 3rd time today that grace was needed. I have to say that God came through big time. Not one of these situations got my undies in a bunch and life went on. There was no tornado at the store and not at our home either. Thank you God for giving to me the ability to handle all that came my way with grace today.

It was an experience being in the back of the store with old people young people and kids. How do you keep kids occupied waiting for a storm to pass? But all in all they were very good.

It was still raining VERY hard when they allowed us to go back to our shopping or check out. I went and got some big garbage bags to put over me cuz I was not going to wait in the store any longer and I didn't want to get drenched,,, when I walked out the front of the store, it was just sprinkling and the sky,, wow,,, I wish I had a camera phone. I just gotta get me one of those.

Sandi