The Miracle Dress

The other night Mark had shared in our small group, how God had given him a dream this past week when he had found out that he finally landed a job.  The dream was about his first paycheck. He shared how he truly wanted to bless me with a beautiful new dress from JC Penney because I had been so faithful with the little money we have had in the past six years, that he wanted me to have a Brand New Dress. No more having to shop at the 50% off thrift stores. My husband was amazed, at how well I managed our income, and how I had the capability to scrimp and scrape to make it stretch. 

So the following day was Valentine.  I knew there was no money to go out and buy any gifts.  I really had no problem with it. I felt in my heart just being together, enjoying each other's company was good enough for me.  After all, Mark will be going back to work and I won't see him as much.  He'll come home tired and more than likely when he got home, I will be ready for bed. So I figured we were going to have to become creative. I made him a gift certificate off the computer for a free massage whenever he desired. Then I thought, we could take a nice walk through the Park (the weather was beautiful), maybe get a chic flic from the video store (Monday happens to be $1 day.)  Come evening, listen to some music by candlelight.  That sounded romantic enough for me.  I really didn't care to go out on Valentine anyway.  The restaurants are usually crowded.  The only thing I did miss was probably having wine (which neither one of us can have) and some chocolate.  Anyway, this was my idea of how our Valentine was going to be.

However, God had something else in mind.  Early that morning we had received a phone call from someone in our group, asking Mark if he would be able to come over and help fix something.  Mark hesitated for a minute.  He said he really wanted to be with me, seeing it's Valentine.  Kate told him that it would take no longer than 30 min.  So Mark decided to go.  When he had arrived, Kate had said that God laid it on her heart to give Mark the money to go buy me that dress!  Before you knew it,she had blessed him with MORE.  Mark was sharing with her, that things are really tight now, and no matter how much I cut back, we would still be short this month by $300.  Not only did I get a dress, she told Mark to take me out for a nice dinner as well!  We were blown away!  I felt like God was romancing us.  We ended up going to the Olive garden (45 min. wait) who cared.  I was with my honey bun.  In my new dress, KNOWING without a doubt, God loves me!

Oh,yea.  Mark went shopping with me for the dress and I even allowed him to come in the dressing room with me!  Now, how many girls would do that?  We were in heaven for the day.  A Valentine I'll never forget.