Thanks, grandpa!

Wow. Word gets around quick. When my grandpa back in Albuquerque heard about my upcoming trip, he sent a generous check this way. It makes me think about how God has placed me in such a loving and caring family. There's so much I wouldn't have been able to see or do in life if it hadn't been for their encouragement and provisions. It's not as if I deserve it. It's grace on their part, just like Lord's gift to us--that by sending His only son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins, the penalty of our rebellious ways are paid for in completeness, with the only requirement that we believe. We did nothing to deserve our salvation, nor can our works earn us a special standing with Him. "Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law." --Romans 3:27-28

The money came just as I was in need of certain odds and ends to leave the country once again. Remember a few posts back where I through away my favorite old brown shoes? Well thanks to grandpa I found a replacement.
Pretty stylish, no? I have a left one as well.

Better get back to packing... once again!

"For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God" --2 Corinthians 9:12