Simply Blessed.

Today was a great day. I was reminded today of how blessed I am. The title of our website is “simply blessed.” I am not sure if you have ever thought about the meaning, but I define simply blessed as divine favor yielding happiness, joy, and contentment. Perhaps you or Mr Webster could come up with a better definition, but this is the best I could do. What it means to me is that I believe that God is in control of all things and often times He blesses us for His enjoyment. The result of him blessing us is our enjoyment… the keyword here is joy. Today was filled with joy. Let me tell you why….

First of all I am in San Angelo by myself. Angie and the kids are in Lubbock with her family. Angie’s brother, Greg and his wife Leah just had a new baby. He was born yesterday and the little guy (Carson) is doing great. Now being away from my family ‘ bring me joy, but a new life coming into the world… that will brings a ton of joy.

Now I am just getting started on my joy ride… check this out. Yesterday, I went to my mailbox and found a check for $1200 from the IRS. That will make anybody’s day huh? Well I was pretty stoked about it. I began thinking about the money and what we should do with it. I really had no idea, but based on past situations, I knew it had a purpose. So today I had an appointment with an eye doctor. He tested me to see if I was a candidate for laser surgery… perhaps they could fix my vision all together. I had always heard this surgery was really great, but really expensive…. I was sure I couldn’t afford it. After visiting with the doctor for a while…. I told him about my family, where I lived (he had visited China several times)… we even talked about spiritual things right there in his office. He was so intrigued that he wanted to bless me. I didn’t know he could set the price of the surgery…. I thought that would have been set by a larger company…. Anyway, bottom line is…. he wants to do the surgery for me for $600 per eye. Yeah, since I have two eyes that will be $1200. You see, I was blessed yesterday with the money and blessed today with a huge discount. I think (they never told me) but the surgery is normally like $4300.

I’ve been thinking all day about why would God bless me like this. I’m not special. I haven’t done anything to deserve the blessing… I haven’t earned it. Then I remembered that His love is not based on my actions… I don’t have to achieve a certain level of good to receive his blessings…. he just blesses because he can and he chooses. I’m not lucky, I’m blessed. Simply blessed…. a diving favor yielding happiness, joy and contentment.