Running on empty

The past few weeks have been just blissful for me! It started with the women's retreat in Williamsburg that I went on. I was on the edge before going, just exhausted, drained, and anxious about nothing! The weekend was just what I needed to get back into perspective. I am all about counting my blessings but I was to the point where I didn't even have time to count them, my tank was running on empty!

Which brings me to my next blissful moment, ha! Craig and I were totally blessed by my mom. She came down and took the 3 girls (Macey, Maggie & Izzie) back to Virginia with her for 1 week!!! Before she left she took the time to help me clean up my outdoors, yeah! If you know my mom, you know that she cannot stand a mess, and my yard was a MESS! So messy that she had to break this out...

So my mom took the girls, Rob & Bonnie took Trent and Craig & I were able to go to the beach for an entire weekend alone, on a couples retreat with our church. We were soooo excited! So excited that we left for the beach in a hurry and never even noticed that our gas tank was on empty!! By the time we noticed, we were on 40 east and were so involved in our conversation that we did not see the gas light come on or even hear the nice chime that my van makes when it is running low on gas. We noticed when the van said 4 miles left of gas (gotta love digital). Typically we would have totally panicked, but not this time! We laughed. Well, we had to because the next gas station was 14 miles away!! We actually held hands and prayed for the next 14 miles and would you believe that we made it to the gas station?!?! We were literally sputtering out of gas as we pulled in and the last 10 miles our van said 0 miles left, so the Lord was dragging us to the gas station! I have proof...

We were never so thankful to see a gas station in our lives! If you know me, you know that I typically DO wait until the last minute to get gas. Two reasons: 1- I hate pumping gas 2- I hate paying top dollar and like to go to BJ's or Costco! This, however, was extreme!

Why do we wait until we are running on empty to realize that we need help? Why when we have exhausted all others avenues do we cry out to the Lord in sheer desperation? All the while he sits in waiting to rescue us from our distress...