God healed my dryer!!!

i know it sounds crazy, but it's true!

because i live on pennies, i can't always just up and repair things. so, rachel and i have been living for a while now without a dryer because it keeps breaking. a lot of my clothes have to be hand-dried because of my height, but the things that needed drying were a pill. we had to get creative with spreading our need around so we wouldn't be burdensome.

well, this past week was 'spiritual emphasis week' at school. all the secondary kids had mini-teachings during the week with a retreat at the end. our topic was how we can live christian lives that are actually marked by belief in our powerful god as opposed to the unbelief that characterizes the faith of many. we can actually step into god's greater kingdom and walk with his authority.

i started to feel a bit of inconsistency in myself as we taught the kids about all this. i can trust god with a lot of things...heart things, needs of others...but i haven't really invited him into my daily needs because i figure that i just need to tough things out and work them out on my own.

after this week, though, i thought i could live differently.

so, after much talk about how foolish we'd look...but that it didn't really matter...rachel and i went into the laundry room and laid hands on our broken dryer. we asked god to heal it.

to be honest, we didn't really think it would happen. the thing has been burnt out forever...but what did we have to lose?

at least, we'd ask.

well, we prayed...and then we decided to give it a try.

and...

it flippin' came on!!!!

we walked out of the laundry room in complete silence, went into the living room and just stared at each other. then we burst out laughing...shocked and then shocked that we were shocked.

so, here i type with the sound of my running dryer in the background. what a reminder of god's power...and how much i sense that he's with me...even if it conks out again someday...my perspective has been so profoundly altered...