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 Just thought that I would quick share a story that happened to us this last Tuesday.  When Cathy and I started our day we had the following commitments for the day.  Each of would be at work until 5:00, then meet at home.  Bre'Lahna had soccer practice at 5:00, which meant that I would have to take off work at 4:30 to get her there in time.  We had a Block Party Planning meeting scheduled for 5:30 which both Cathy and I wanted to attend.  Corde' had a home soccer game at 7:00 which meant that he had to be there at 6:00/6:30.  And finally we had our our Turbo class for Small Group development with our Church also at 7:00.

When we left that day for work, the only thing that Cathy and I had agreed upon was the fact that we committed to the eight week Turbo class with our church and that for some reason we were being lead to do this and get more involved in our church.  We agreed to e-mail each other during the day to determine who was going to do what and how we were going to be able to get it all in.  Each of us would have to give up something, but as I said we were dedicated to the Turbo class which meant that we would have to ask Corde' to give up having us attend  his game.

Well this is how it ended up playing out.  About 2:00 in the afternoon a  thunder storm broke out and dumped a lot of rain on us.  By 3:00 I received an e-mail from Bre's coach cancelling her practice, one down three to go.  By 4:30 we received another e-mail announcing that the Block Party Planning meeting had been switched to Thursday night instead!  Two down, two to go.

When we got home from work we sat Corde' down and explained to him the importance of us both attending the Turbo class and missing his game.  He was disappointed, but eventually agreed that we should go to our class.  We then convinced Andre' and Bre' to go and support Corde' and watch his game.  Afterwards they would all walk home together.  We ended up running late as usual so the tension was a bit high and became even more when we drove to the soccer field.  His game tonight was to be played on a different field that we had not used before, but was listed in the e-mail reminder of the game.  When no one was there we began questioning ourselves so we continued on to the next park that was close by - no one there either.  I pulled over to the side of the road and called his coach Bob.  Sure enough, Bob started to appologize saying he thought he had called everyone - his game was cancelled!

Cathy and I returned the kids to the house and went to our Turbo class.  Considering that we had committed to doing this class early on in the morning, and how many things that conflicted with it, we just felt that a higher power had intervened to make sure that we were rewarded for making this a priority!  We didn't have to miss out on anything to do what we knew was right.