At the Relief Society (church women organization) conference on Saturday the the theme was, "Finding Joy in the Season of Your Life." Or basically finding joy with whatever God sends your way. Since God is good He gave me a chance to try it out this weekend. Saturday night at about midnight we discovered that our fridge was no longer working. Fortunately my parents live close by and still happened to be awake and just so happen to have a second fridge. Today we spent the majority of the day looking for a fridge and discovered only one store in town could deliver the fridge by tomorrow, fortunately it was also the store with the cheapest prices. Since we have no food we went out of dinner. The people at the drive through window at were taking a long time to get our food so Chris turned off the car and when tried to start it up again it wouldn't. so he had to push the car out of the drive through. As he passed the window the Taco Bell employee so kindly told him to have a nice day. Amidst all the fun we discover that our 4 year old is running a fever.
So, remembering the lessons taught at the conference I am working on finding the joy in this season. Here is what I have so far. I get a new refrigerator. This is especially exciting since I have never had a new fridge before. I really wanted one with more space to meet the needs of our growing family. Instead of getting one large fridge we bought two smaller ones, which ended up being more space and less money. Another joy I discovered during this process is the ability my husband and I have to work through trials together and find humor in the challenges we face. I am so grateful to have someone who can laugh with me through the tough times.
While this wasn't huge trial it was a major inconvenience and my attitude about the situation made a big difference. At each moment we have a choice whether to find joy or misery, for me, I choose to joy.
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