Oh the power of prayer!

I didn't grow up in a very religous house hold. I was baptised Catholic at 4 weeks old and that's about as far as my religious education went until I was a Senior in High School. During that time, I really knew that I wanted to have a nice church wedding some day and wanted to be married in my faith; but unfortunatly I wouldn't be able to do so until I made the sacrament of 1st Communion and Confirmation.

So, I drove my sister and myself to religious education classes and made 1st communion and confirmation in one year. I was so excited, and the Bishop of our diocease called me Smily (like a lot of people have over the course of my life). A few years later (3 to be exact) I married my DH in a full catholic mass at our church.

All the while I didn't feel as though I fit in totally with my faith because I felt ripped off from not going to RE classes and learning how to propperly pray. I still to this day don't know how to pray the rosary and I'll be 35 in September... Due to this I never properly learned how to pray. I really never did much praying at all really.

When my Mother in law was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer I prayed like I've never prayed before. She survived and has been in remission since January 2008.

Well, things got kind of rocky with my "day job" and there was concern that we might not have any funds to keep going full steam through the end of July. Our 4th child is due July 1st and that would have meant that I would have to find a PT job at nights leaving a newborn home with my DH in addition to our 3 other children. Not the best situation, but one that we'd have to muddle through.

I enlisted the help of friends and family as well as my church's prayer chain to pray for my job and our family to make it through this tough financial time. Low and behold, 3 days later we received good news that our client was going to keep us on and not cancel!

Praise Jesus! God is gracious, God is good! Thank you to all of my friends, family and others I don't know for praying for us during this tough time. I continue to pray that things will get better so I don't have to worry about income after baby Joshua gets here.