Patience and Prayer

I’ve been feeling that I needed to post a blog soon. However, I really couldn’t think of a topic to blog about. Today, a table I purchased for my dining room came in the mail and I put it together. My table is very lovely and I was talking to my grandmother about the fact. In the midst of talking to her, I had to stop and thank God. I had to think about where I was last year and where I am today.

 Last year around this time I had just graduated from my graduate program, gotten a new job, purchased a new car, and moved into a new unfurnished apartment yet I was very depressed. I was depressed because I was in debt to survive. I needed to work, I needed to get there, and I needed a place to stay. Starting with $0 dollars only allows you get in debt to take care of all of those things. It was a very sad time. My boyfriend had moved to my city to be with me and he didn’t have a job to start off so it was a very rough patch. Our apartment was empty we only had an air mattress that his aunt had given us, a tv, and a tv stand. Eating was even a challenge. Well I found a couch for $20 bucks and we added that.  Later in the month an awesome co-worker of mine gave us a futon to add to our empty home. It was very depressing. I am not ashamed to say. Yes I went through a period of depression.

However, today I am proud to say that I have moved on. God has blessed us with a bigger apartment, a full living room, two bedrooms both furnished, and today I completed my Dining area. God is so good and he works on his time. It had nothing to do with me being depressed but the fact that he had a plan in store for me. Some may say. Hey Dreka, those are material things. I agree, but I also look at them as physical things. Sometimes people need to see things to believe it. You can’t measure or began to see my happiness at this point in my life, you can’t measure the fact that I feel better with myself, you can’t measure the fact that my faith is stronger than it was last year, you can’t measure the joy I feel to say that I am debt free.  I will be lying to you if I said I didn’t have my bad days because I swear I do. But I get out of that funk and live my life day to day. There is no sense in worrying about tomorrow when tomorrow’s not even promised. 

Sincereheart,