Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Original House Miracle


I've been spending lots of time contemplating Miracles. The next one that is being recalled to share involves the place I call home (seems I'm going through a "home" phase when it comes to Miracles). It's being brought to my attention that my Renovation Raiders Miracle was not the first major miracle involving my house. 


The Contemplation:
I'm realizing that since I was a little girl I always wanted a nice, clean, organized house to call home. The memory that keeps coming to me is that as a tiny little girl I would get off the school bus and walk towards our neighbors house just in case any of the children on the bus were watching. I was hoping that they would think I lived in the nice red rambler next door instead of the paint chipping, kind of falling apart house that some might consider a cabin (in need of some love and care). Of course everyone knew what house I came from, but my little tiny mind felt better just thinking that someone, anyone, on the bus might think I belonged in that one story rambler with pretty bright red paint. I guess my prayers to God about wanting a nice house started earlier than I let myself remember.

The Miracle:
My second house miracle is short... but once again involves the internet, and winning things. I see a theme starting here.

I love a local magazine called Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine. Before the economic downturn in the US companies would have contests to give away their products as promotions. One random day I was called to go to the website of my favorite local magazine (note: no angel voices this time, but back then my antenna had foggy reception).

Here's the website as you would see it today:
http://mspmag.com/Contests-And-Promotions/


Back then they were giving away a ton of free Christmas gifts (today the economy still hasn't recovered enough for companies to warrant promotions like they did back then). This particular promotion was titled, "What's on your Christmas List", basically all I had to do was go down a checklist they had set up and click on anything that I would like to win and get from Santa. Easy enough, right? So, out of a list of 25-40 things ranging from dinners to local restaurants, vacations to exotic places, and gift certificates to boutiques I chose very carefully. I didn't want to click on too many items because I thought it would take away my chances of getting what I really wanted - new Cambria counter tops for my kitchen. What are Cambria counter tops you ask? Well here's a link to view some of their fine products:

http://www.cambriausa.com/en/designs/photos-and-videos/

As you can see, they are very high quality items and I felt I would be very lucky to have such an amazing gift in my kitchen.

I forgot about the contest until a few months later when I received a phone call. Turns out the Divine wanted me to have nice kitchen counter tops! Wow. This is one lucky girl!

I could not see putting such nice new counter tops on the 1951 cabinets that were currently in the kitchen. A project started and the whole kitchen was going to get a makeover.  This too is a miracle, because there was no budget for a new kitchen but somehow things just fell into place.

The Lesson:
I can see now how wishes from when I was 8yrs. old were being put in a bank. A big God bank. When do withdrawals happen? I have no idea, but I'm seeing how Gratitude is like knowing the account number and password. That's all for now.





Oh, want to see some photos of the kitchen God gave me? .... The photos are not the best. I almost didn't get "before" photos at all, and took them after the demo started so please excuse the mess ;) however, I think you can get the idea of the transformation!


BEFORE




AFTER






BEFORE

AFTER


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