Answered Prayers

Thank you for your prayers for me as I requested yesterday. I could feel your prayers lifting me up and helping me to move forward in my journey.
Today was a very long but also a very good day. I really needed to get back on track with my walking and I did just that this morning. It was about 8 degrees when I woke up this morning. I set my alarm for 6:00 AM and was up and out the door by 6:15 AM. I was at Wal-Mart a few minutes later and walked for about an hour. It was a good walk. There were hardly any people at Wal-Mart at that hour. It was just me and the Wal-Mart employees and a few shoppers who had braved the cold morning temperatures.
The neatest thing about walking was after I had been walking about a half hour, my friend Karen showed up for her morning walk. We hadn't planned it but it's always good to have a walking partner. We walked and talked for about a half hour. I left and Karen kept on going.
I made some progress at work today in moving some applications forward in the process. It is a very slow process but I think it is a pretty good process that designed to benefit families even if they don't make it all the way through the process. Hopefully they can learn something along the way. Hopefully we are able to help them take the next step in their journeys of life. We hope that will be as a Habitat home owner, but it might also mean that we refer them to another program that may be able to help them in a different way. I feel a constant sense of gratitude for this work and ministry.
My day ended with another great session of my creative writing class. We did some very long writing exercises. We basically wrote for one and one-half hours for the first part of the class. Our instructor gave us prompts to get us started. They were essentially sentences that were to get us thinking. My prompt was "Any day the water wasn't frozen, Rhoda washed her hair." When I drew this one randomly from the pile of prompts, I thought "What in the world am I going to write about this?" However, it turned out to be a fun exercise. My mind went in some really strange directions. I think I actually came up with the beginning of another short story. We'll see how that goes.
It's late and I want to try to get up early and walk again tomorrow at Wal-Mart. I need to get to bed. Like I wrote above, it's been a long day but a very good day. It was truly a gift from God and I am grateful to have had the honor of experiencing this gift. Thanks for being a part of my journey!