Remember This? Answered Prayer

When Little D was born (one year ago) Mandy (my baby daughter) stayed with him for 3 months before returning to work.

This was the day she left him with me. It was heartbreaking.

I will never forget this picture of her getting into her car to leave and I have never felt so helpless for one of my children. If you enlarge this picture you can see the pain on my daughter's face. It broke my heart.

Fast forward to this week......

I received this email (along with family & close friends) from Mandy (our baby daughter) this week and I just had to share this with you. What can I say? Happy Tears!

The subject line read: PRAYERS DO GET ANSWERED

Hi everyone!
For some reason, I felt like sharing my testimony with you today. I've always felt like I didn't have a testimony. Like so many, I accepted Christ at an early age when I really didn't know exactly what it meant. Although I knew that I wanted to go to heaven, I just never really had a testimony. Anyways, finally I do and I wanted to share with you.

After I was blessed to stay home with my baby for 3 months after he was born, I just couldn't bare the thought of going back to work. Many times I woud say I'm just not sure how I am physically going to do it. Right before I was scheduled to go back to work, I called my boss and asked if there was anyway that I could go part time. She easily said sure and I was ecstatic........I thought this was my answer to prayers! Days later the boss called back while I was taking my baby out in his stroller for a beautiful walk and she told me that I could not go part time and that I was scheduled to come in full time on Monday. My heart sank and I had tears in my eyes. I can still go back and remember the feeling. How was I going to leave my baby?? I had been with him everyday and wanted to continue this, but I took all of the disappointment and prayed. I prayed hard- I especially prayed over the scripture James 1:6 "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea - blown and tossed by the wind." And I tried so hard to turn this over to God. I asked about part time every week thinking that was as good as it could get and then a man from our church called. He wanted to know if my husband still needed a part time job-I quickly said no, but I do........it was a job working from home taking phone calls. I had never heard of jobs where people could work from home. I thought this was too good to be true. So, I just prayed and I was scared and I often said "this is too crazy not to be God." As you all know I took this job almost a year ago....Remember I thought part time 3 1/2 days a week would be great.......God showed me that he had the answer in HIS time. (I only went back to the bank for 4 weeks!!!!) Now I get to spend time with Davis (my baby) and am blessed with a job as well! God does answer prayers. HIS answer to my prayer was beyond my realm of thinking. I definitely work hard, but I feel so blessed and I thank God each day for this blessing.

I wanted to share this with you. I'm not sure if you may be going through something that you are praying about but know that miracles do happen. What you may be praying for is only a drop in a bucket compared to what God can do.

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful day.

Mandy

And Look at them now!

Prayers do get answered!

Thank you Lord.

Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalms 37:4