Kelli and I are reading the Love Dare book together. Day 3 says to buy your "honey" something that says that you are thinking of them today. So, I stopped by Dynamic Flowers on my way home from work and saw the mums right away. I'd been wanting to get some because they are so beautiful, and they are perennial, meaning that they come back year after year. Being probably too much on the practical side I don't like to buy cut-flowers because they'll just die in a few days, which is a depressing waste of money for me. So, the God part of the story is that the district manager, Mike, was in charge of this particular store this particular night and was happy to hear that I was planning to give my wife one nice mum and plant the other one. He said that he was expecting
a shipment of 50 more mums the following day, and had all of these others on hand that he probably wouldn't be able to sell because they needed too much help. I offered him a 20 to give me whatever he thought was fair. He started loading me up! 13 mums total including the really pretty one that I picked out for Kelli and I was stunned and blessed by God. Amazing! Just as I was finishing loading the 13 mums into the Mountaineer (took a lot of space you know?), Mike came out of the store with another big suprise for me! He gave me a bouquet of a dozen wrapped roses for my sweetheart. He said they would only last a day or so anyway... Kelli loved the roses, and I planted all the mums except for one that we gave away, this morning before work. Yes, this is a God-story. God is amazing and kind beyond understanding, even answering our prayers when we don't know what to pray for. He used a nice man named Mike to bless our family. You want to hear the funny part that really tells you God was in it? Kelli went shopping for me during the day and almost bought me a mum for my present :-)
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