Thankful!

I'm totally thankful to the Lord for the wonderful financial blessing that he gave me this month. I got to do a few things I had definitely prayed about and made up my mind to do as soon as I knew how much income tax money I was getting this year. I was going to buy my bees and beekeeping supply but I changed my mind and decided that it would be best to purchase those things once I find a job, instead I would save a portion for a car payment and use the rest for one thing I truly wanted and something else. Now this may get to sounding materialistic but really it's just goes to show how things work out.

The one thing I wanted lol, which I never planed on purchasing was a digital camera. A friend of mine had lost hers and I went along with her to search for a new one with her. What resulted was I found a camera I really liked, now I tried to brush off wanting the camera, telling myself that I didn't need one. Even though every Christian concert, Uth event, Nature hike, I've been on I usually borrow my grandpa's kodak digi. I always use zoom with results to my disappointment, though I took some really neat pictures at Alive Festival (the last decent one they had 2006). Each time I borrowed it though I was lectured which is understandable. So I couldn't shake it and that week (my friend ended up finding her camera which was a great blessing because it had irreplaceable baby shower pics), I ended up caving in and searching every where for the camera I wanted to find that every store around me was sold out of that particular model. In defeat (lol I know dramatic right?), I go to my moms and tell her if she wants to go camera hunting with me I was going the next day. She had somethings she wanted to do to so she went with me. We ended up going to this local company that is known for good deals and sure enough I thought they had my camera but they didn't and when I described the camera I wanted to the sales guy he went in the back and brought out this super model that was 10x better than the ones I had looked at. I couldn't believe it and I was like I didn't even want to know how much it was. It was 200 dollars over what I wanted to pay, so he showed me another camera and I liked the price but as I looked at it I knew my grandpa's camera was better quality than that. My mother was so sweet and offered to pay half which brought it back to my budget for what I wanted to spend and I was like No no, and she insisted it would be an early birthday present so I caved in. I know its a material thing but I feel so blessed because once I got it home I could not believe how nice it is, I didn't realize it even recorded long length hd quality videos.

Anyways it was just a nice surprise. I can't wait til this spring I'm going to take tons of pictures, maybe even start a photo blog. I'm really close with my mother and despite the fact I am 24 (25 in march ahhh) I value her opinion so much and I was really grateful that she understood my reasoning when it came to spending some of my income tax money. Despite the fact I am jobless at the moment. I have faith the Lord will lead me to a job he wants me to be at. That door just hasn't opened and in spending what money I did I took a little bit of a chance on regretting it in a few months but I'm hoping that things will change before then. But in the end I know I not regret the camera and the one other thing I had planned to do with it :) I start classes for college on the 22nd of March, lol my birthday is the 29th, and one of my best friend's due date is on the 12th. I'm praying this March will be far better than 2009's March.