Day 174 - Where I am right now

Yesterday I went to our church's food pantry to get free food for our family to help alleviate our grocery bill. I sat in a waiting room and doing so I publicly admitted that we need help. I sat among people I had always labeled as "needy." Sometimes I feel like our life is a movie; a place where I never thought we would be. I have so many feelings on the topic, but what I want to say is that you never know where life will take you. We went from lavish vacations to accepting free food from a food pantry. We went from spending hundreds of dollars any day we wanted on clothing, to accepting hand me downs. There is nothing wrong with any of it, but it's a whole different life and it happened just like that. And while I know it all serves a purpose in our life, whether it is to be more humble or to serve others in the future with a greater wisdom and heart, it is what it is and that is where I am living right now. I am not devastated or heartbroken; instead I am just grateful that we have what we have today. Things could be so much worse.

"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." -Genesis 50:20