Andy
01-01-2017, 10:51 PM
I just want to praise God for his generosity, and the generosity of his people. In the last few days I was exploring the option of becoming a vendor sponsor to get more into the business side of my hobby in the coming year. The up-front cost of it was going to be bad timing for us and I was resolved to go ahead with it anyway so I didn't say a thing about that to anyone.
Long story short, another forum member here covered the cost of my membership for the first year! They had no way of knowing how helpful this was to offer at this time and I didn't give any hints about it, it was just a pure act of generosity on their part, all they knew was I was thinking about becoming a VS. This was just a brief exchange via PM and it was such a great encouragement to kick off my plans and felt like a further blessing on top of all the others God has shown me this year.
My wife and I prayed a lot this year about "being willing to accept God's blessings freely" and he has really encouraged and rewarded us a result. This year "on paper" we are worse off than most previous years, but that isn't a blip on my radar because our relationship with God, our happiness together and our optimism for the future is better than it has ever been before.
Thanks for the great people in this forum and for God's blessings!
Long story short, another forum member here covered the cost of my membership for the first year! They had no way of knowing how helpful this was to offer at this time and I didn't give any hints about it, it was just a pure act of generosity on their part, all they knew was I was thinking about becoming a VS. This was just a brief exchange via PM and it was such a great encouragement to kick off my plans and felt like a further blessing on top of all the others God has shown me this year.
My wife and I prayed a lot this year about "being willing to accept God's blessings freely" and he has really encouraged and rewarded us a result. This year "on paper" we are worse off than most previous years, but that isn't a blip on my radar because our relationship with God, our happiness together and our optimism for the future is better than it has ever been before.
Thanks for the great people in this forum and for God's blessings!