inspiration

Today is Sunday, my favorite day of the week. Mr. Oberti, the attorney called this morning and we had a phone conference to clarify the letter he is sending to the college on Martin's behalf. I was so impressed that he could care so much about us, that he would call on Sunday morning when he should be having a day off. But he did. Martin couldn't go to church as he is pretty sick with a cold, but I went anyway. As I sat in Sacrament meeting, and as they were passing the sacrament, I was praying and thanking Heavenly Father for all our blessings, especially that Mr. Oberti would go to so much trouble to protect Martin's work. A thought flashed strongly through my mind, that Heavenly Father sent him to us. I then remembered that with the difficulties recently, I had become behind with my tithing. I am a strong advocate of tithing and I have a strong testimony that if I trust Heavenly Father and pay my tithing, he will keep his promise to "keep the devorerer from the door". We are pressed with co-pays for medication for Martin and myself, and have experienced a hard year financially, but up until October I had paid a full tithing in spite of it. I was worried that I had fallen behind, because Heavenly Father does not fall behind when I need something, and so it was really pressing on my mind to fix the situation. When I received my disability check I asked Becky if she would take me to the Bishop's house so that I could give him a check to catch up my tithing. Being Christmas time, I guess I could have used it for gifts and stuff, but I already had made my gifts, and so there was no question, I would pay the amount to get myself to full tithe paying status. Today, I realized that Heavenly Father has lead us to Mr. Oberti, and probably because he is one of the multitude of blessings we need and will receive to help us through this illness and threat of loss of employment. Also, as I sat there, the thought came to me that Martin will live until they can fix him, and then he will be much better. I thought, "Well, that is my wish, and not from Heavenly Father", but why can it not be from Heavenly Father? After all, it came strongly to me when I was praying, so I will attribute it to Father's influence, and not try to dispell such good news. So, I want to say that Heavenly Father is there for us, knows what we need and can see the big picture. We cannot. I guess faith is waiting and believing that Heavenly Father will see us through,