The Perfect Mistake

My Mother's father worked as a carpenter. On this particular day, he was building some crates for the clothes his church was sending to orphanages in China.

On his way home, he reached into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, he realized what had happened; the glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the crates, which he had nailed shut.

His brand new glasses were heading for China.

The Great Depression was at its height and Grandpa had six children. He had spent $20 for those glasses that very morning. He was upset by the thought of having to buy another pair. "It's not fair," he told God as he drove home in frustration. "I've been very faithful in giving of my time and money to your work, and now this."

Months later, the director of the orphanage was on furlough in the United States. He wanted to visit all the churches that supported him in China, so he came to speak one Sunday at my grandfather's small church in Chicago.

The missionary began by thanking the people for their faithfulness in supporting the orphanage. "But most of all," he said,

"I must thank you for the glasses you sent last year. You see, the Communists had just swept through the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate. Even if I had the money, there was simply no way of replacing those glasses. Along with not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day, so my coworkers and I were much in prayer about this.

Then your crates arrived. When my staff removed the covers, they found a pair of glasses lying on top. The missionary paused long enough to let his words sink in. Then, still gripped with the wonder of it all, he continued: "Folks, when I tried on the glasses, it was as though they had been custom made just for me! I want to thank you for being a part of that."

The people listened, happy for the miraculous glasses. But the missionary surely must have confused their church with another, they thought. There were no glasses on their list of items to be sent overseas. But sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face, an ordinary carpenter realized the Master Carpenter had used him in an extraordinary way.

Look daily for the perfect mistakes...


[this was emailed to me and I'm not sure who wrote it but I really liked it and wanted to share it with you :)]

A Friday Evening

Today I went to my last class of the quarter. No more classes till January! Now I just have a week of finals :/
Tonight the Business Club held a dinner vespers event. Amanda and I went and enjoyed some home cooked food. Then we got to decorate baked cookies! I decorated a Christmas tree and Amanda decorated a gingerbread man. It was really nice to just relax and hang out with friends. After dinner was over we went to the main vespers event for a Christmas program. The bell choir, chorale, and orchestra put on a LONG traditional Christmas program. I like listening to Christmas music but it was just really drawn out and I kept thinking about how inviting my bed sounds.








These boys decided to sport there best Christmas sweaters which they purchased at a Goodwill. I think my favorite is the blue one on the right.... Which one is your favorite?

The rest of the weekend consists of studying, studying, and probably a little more studying :(

Wordless Wednesday

Hello Dead Week

Dead Week.

Also known as the week before finals.

10 more days till I'm free!

I just have to survive dead week and finals week....

Disneyland!

To complete our Southern California trip we went to Disneyland and California Adventure! On Sunday we woke up early so we could spend the whole day at Disneyland! Everything was decorated so pretty for Christmas! The first thing you see when you walk in is this huge tree with a million decorations on it!

It looks even prettier at night!

It was a good thing we got there early because the lines were not very long. I think my favorite ride at Disneyland is Indian Jones because you actually feel like your in the car and I always duck when the huge rock ball comes towards the car. My favorite ride at California Adventure is the Tower of Terror Hotel. I felt airborne almost the whole ride and it just gets your heart jumping because you never know how far or when your going to drop. It's hard to see... but in this picture, my face shows how awesome this ride really is (middle row on the left).

Trevor doesn't look so thrilled in all these pictures but contrary to what the pictures say... he did have a good time :). He refused to go on the it's a small world ride so the girls went instead and Trevor ventured off to find a different ride. Although he wasn't actually in the ride... we found a Trevor replica lol

Christmas Decorations inside It's a small world ride

As the sun started going down we started dragging our feet a little more. Disneyland really wore us out. We finished a few last rides, got some souvenirs, and headed home. We left earlier than planned but that was all alright with us because we had a long drive back home that night. This is my 3rd time going to Disneyland and we had a lot of fun. Hopefully in the near future I can take my sister because the last time she went, she was 3 and she doesn't remember it anymore.

The start of Thanksgiving break :)

I started the Thanksgiving break out by heading down to Southern California with Trevor and Allie. The drive was long and there was lots of traffic, but I guess that is to be expected when you live in California.

On Saturday Me and Allie went and hung out with my roommate Amanda and Trevor hung out with his brother Brandon and did boy stuff.

We had a delicious lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and for desert.... Yummy Cheesecake! (wish I had taken a picture of it). After a late lunch we headed over to Huntington beach and walked out on the Pier. I had never been to a pier like this and it felt and looked just like in the movies!







It was really quite pretty with the sunset going down. To end the wonderful day we went and saw the movie New Moon! Yay!


We also encountered a singing beach Santa Clause who let us take some pictures with him and gave us candy canes :).

Next post.... a fun Sunday at.... :)

Prayer Request

A few weeks ago my Grandma Mary was diagnosed with colon caner. Today she is having surgery to remove the tumor. She went in for surgery at 6 am and is suppose to get out around 1 pm. Please Keep her in your prayers.

Wordless Wednesday

It's Getting Hot in here.... Not!

Last weekend when I went home, I found this taped to the temperature gage (or whatever its called).

My dad's body temperature is on a totally different level from the women in our house. He's always hot when we're freezing.

So my sister took action and duck taped this thing shut so my dad could no longer turn down the heat or even turn it off.

Wordless Wednesday