39 Days to go.

Today was Day 1

Friday- Date Night

8am

We woke up late but Michael said a beautiful prayer in bed. He prayed for grace and favor for the day and for our 40 days. 
We got up and started right in. Today couldn’t go completely to the schedule because we needed to plan some meals and go to the store before the “scheduled” day to do that on Sunday. We still wanted to have Date Night though. We decided to stick as close as possible to the schedule till lunch then go to a movie in the afternoon and then shopping then home to cook together.

9:30am

We started our Hobbit devotional and today was all about, not being like the Hobbits and unaware of the world around you outside your little sphere.

Then, we read Judges 4-5 about Deborah and the warrior Barak who was afraid to go into battle without help (even though he had the Word of the Lord and 10,000 men) and face Israel’s enemies the Canaanites, and so a woman, Jael, was the one who killed the evil Canaanite general Sisera in her tent not the strong Barak. Then the song Deborah and Barak sang after the Lord was victorious was all of chapter 5.

10am

After we finished our time I checked my email and saw one from my dry cleaners, (www.puritancleaners.com) an add for a food drive for local people in need. I decided to print out the paper of what they needed most for later.

4pm

We went to the movies. It was AWESOME! It was the first move we had been to since BEFORE we moved to Virginia a year ago! We can see the lights of the Theater sign from our apartments but we haven’t gone. We went to buy our tickets and I ended up getting a free movie! They give a free ticket to an individual who is going with someone in a wheelchair! COOL! This may be the first time I have gotten a discount for Mike being a Handi man :) I like it!

We saw Disney’s Tomorrow Land. It was inspiring. I think it would have made Walt proud. It was something that really stuck to his vision of what his Tomorrow Land was supposed to be. It was a clean movie. Rated PG. There was a bunch of robots shooting stuff, but no blood, and no swearing. The main girl Casey, is smart, a good daughter, loves her father who loves and respects her. She has a younger brother who she is kind too and over all just made me happy to see a happy family in a movie. Nothing creepy, just a fun movie.

6pm

After the movie we went to the store and got all our list and some canned things for the food drive. As we were paying the cashier told us that today was a good day to “stock up on canned goods” because it was a double rewards points for gas. I was amazed. I wouldn’t have been so urgent to buy things for the dry cleaners if we hadn’t read that morning in our devotional about being more aware of the needs in your community. So what we bought for the food drive actually got us some money off our next gas station visit! Completely unexpected! When we walked out to the car I had a happy little moment. 

7pm

Came home put everything away, fed the dog. Cooked a Lemon and Artichoke Caper Chicken over fresh greens. It was pretty good. We both think it would be good with salmon too. 

We prayed for grace and favor today and ended up getting a free movie pass and money off at the gas station. I really felt like this was God telling us we were on the right path.