God is Good

A little story for you, by Julie.

We mentioned in our last post that we have had a problem with bed bugs. We had actually had that problem for probably about 6 weeks before we realised what was going on. By the time we found out where all the itchy bites were coming from, we had endured a fair bit of suffering. We had tried spraying some things, which helped for a little while, but the bugs always came back because that's what bed bugs do. When we found out what they were, how they like to hide in tiny little cracks and crevices, how difficult they are to get rid of and how much blood they suck, we started feeling very discouraged. Bed bugs are like a cross between ticks and headlice. They suck blood like ticks (minus the corkscrew nose) and they breed and spread like headlice (minus the living on your head thing). We were already very tired and we didn't feel like we could handle this.

On the Saturday before last, we had been in church during the morning while I did some Children's Cantata stuff and we really didn't want to go home. We couldn't face it. So, we checked some movie times for the local malls. These malls only show about three or four movies at a time and most of the time, we are not terribly keen on the choices. But on this Saturday, God made sure the movie that we really needed to see in the name of emotional wellbeing, Johnny English: Reborn, was playing. It was such a wonderful breath of fresh air and we laughed the whole way through it.

After the movie, we were lured into an electronics shop with a "3D World by Sony" sign. The 3D wasn't operational, but we did see three T.V. screens showing scenes of New Zealand! Not only that, but they were scenes of Auckland, places we know and fresh and clean ocean. We told the shop attendant that our city was playing on the T.V. and he watched it with us. He was amazed at the lack of dust and we found that rather amazing as well. Among the scenes was a shot of the ferry I used to ride to work every day! There are only about 2 boats that look like that in all of Auckland and one made it to an electronics shop in Uganda. I was so happy to see it, I shouted "That's my ferry!" I knew that God could see us and that he cared. We also knew that, before too long, we would be back in the ocean and there are no bed bugs in the ocean. =)

The final icing on the cake was dinner. There was a grill we had seen before but had never been to and we decided to give it a try. It was part of a butcher's shop, which seemed promising. It was amazing. Definitely the best food we have ever had here. There were many tasty vegetables and the chef knew how to make a dignified well-done steak which is quite rare (haha). I have recently discovered that my one of my biggest, if not my biggest, love language is being fed. If somebody gives me good food then I feel loved and taken care of. I know that this dinner was another gift from God.

The bed bug battle continued, but we found that we could face it a little better than we could before.

So that's my story. Thanks for reading. Your regularly scheduled program will continue shortly.