{Day 240}

This is a story of a dress… No, not a little black dress!  A different dress.  A pink dress.  A bridesmaid dress.  For my dear friend Christa’s wedding she graciously allowed us to pick out our own knee length pink dresses.  Unfortunately I had seen one that was extremely expensive.  Not exactly in my price range.  In fact it wasn’t even close.  Since doing this project I have a hard time spending money on myself since I know that $5 could feed a child for a month…anyways I wanted this dress quite badly and was looking for something similar.  Of course I couldn’t find anything that was working for me.  I kept going back to the website and looking at the dress I liked.  Finally I realized that looking at it wasn’t going to help anything and since God already knew what was on my heart I might as well tell him.  So yes…I prayed a silly little prayer.  Except no prayers that are sincere are silly.  I talked to Jesus and just told him that I didn’t have the money for the dress and even if I did I couldn’t justify spending the money but that I would be very happy if He wanted to bring it along.  I left it at that and forgot about that prayer.  Fast forward a week when I have just finished dinner and my mom asks me to go wash my hands.  My first response was, “Huh?”.  Since she hadn’t said anything like that since I was 4 it was awkward and I immediately wondered what was going on.  So I did as she had asked and then my dad started recording on his phone and then I was really feeling concerned with what was happening.  My mom brought out a beautifully wrapped box.  Yet when she found out that my dad had missed that part she grabbed it from me, walked out, and then walked back in so that he could get it recorded.  By this time I was laughing so hard.  Opening up the beautiful box I pulled back the crisp tissue paper only to discover…the dress I had prayed about! Yep, that’s right.  But get this, it was given to me by an anonymous person.  And the note said that they just wanted me to know that God loved me and hears my payers.  WOW.  Not only did I receive a stunning dress but this wonderful, amazing, extremely generous, and very kind individual had overnight shipped it AND had it gift wrapped!  I was beside myself.  I have since tried to figure out who sent it but can’t seem to.  It wasn’t anyone in my family that much I know.  So if you are reading this and you sent me that lovely gift then THANK YOU!  It has reminded me of God’s love and faithfulness time and time again.  Oh how He loves me!  So that’s the pink dress story and I’ve hardly been able to wait to wear that dress this Saturday.  After the wedding if you come to my house you may just find me dancing around my house with hair a mess but one little pink dress being worn quite happily like a three year old. 😉