The Beautiful Life

More than enough…

We’ve been cutting way back on our grocery budget because I’ve been doing a lot of home improvement projects, trying to get our house ready to sell. It’s been an interesting challenge to feed our family of five on 1/3 of our normal budget without resorting to buying junk. This weekend, as I was working out my plan of attack for the store, I added only apples and bananas to the list. We just couldn’t buy anything else, even though I really wanted something more. So I prayed. Just a quick little, “God, I’d love for one of our neighbors to give us some fruit” kind of prayers. We live in town and I didn’t really think anyone would have fruit to give away. Really, I have no idea why I prayed that. I just did.

Today, when I walked through the produce department, I looked over at the pears, trying to figure out a way to squeeze in a couple without going over budget, but I quickly realized it was just not going to happen. So I left without them. Fast forward to this afternoon. My kids walk in with a huge bag of…NINETEEN PEARS! It turns out that our neighbor at the end of the street has a pear tree and had more than they could eat. So she gave them to us. I have no idea how we are going to eat so many. God is really the God of more than enough, and tonight I’m feeling so blessed.

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