Keepin' the Faith

Before I begin my actual post, some questions were asked about henna tattoos.

Henna is a plant that produces a red-orange dye, which is used in body art in the Middle East, India, and even Africa. In fact, it's even talked about in the Bible (it's called Camphire there.) Hehe looking at Wikipedia, it looks like henna for body art is actually illegal here, which makes me feel even warmer and fuzzier inside about using it. Anyway, the henna leaves are mashed into a paste, which is applied to your skin in pretty designs. You let the paste dry, and as it is drying your skin absorbs the dye! After a while it fades... mine was done on Monday, and now part of the design is totally gone, and part is faded.

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So, my devoted readers will probably remember that about a week ago that I was posting about being very depressed, and how life was just completely sucking.

That was last Saturday. I felt like everything was crashing around me... our finances were the worst they'd ever been, we couldn't even afford to get our heat turned on... work was CRAZY, with everyone spatting and all this drama, in addition to an insanely high work load... and so on and so forth.

Sunday I dragged my lazy butt to church, only to hear my pastor preach on faith. By the end, I realized I had completely given up hope for my situation! I had decided things were never going to get better, and we'd always have to struggle like this. I decided to let go, stop the panic, and cancel my trip to the pawn shop. (Seriously. I had stuff packed.) I decided to just trust God, have faith, and relax.

So how did that work out for me?

Sunday afternoon a friend took me out for supper at Dennys! I felt all warm and fuzzy inside. Monday when I got to work, the coworker who all the drama had centered around had quit. My workload increased a little, but life is SO PEACEFUL there now in comparison. 75% of my job stress ended that day. I was able to sleep without waking up in the middle of the night, worrying about work! Then, when I got home from work, James told me that instead of his job cutting his hours, like they had been doing, he was on manditory overtime! He has worked 76 hours this week, and next week he will have at least 10 more hours of overtime! (If not more... James plans to be working overtime frequently until Christmas.)

The bills are being paid, the heat will be turned on sometime next week (whenever we can actually be HOME, so they can come turn it on.), the job is bearable, and in general....

Life is good.

So if you're going through one of those periods where life sucks, keep the faith. It works.