I am completely overwhelmed, amazed and in awe of what God has done for me. I have lived a life of always getting in over my head. If God doesn’t show up and bail me out, I would be sunk. He has showed up in miraculous ways over and over again through the years. I am not sure how people that don’t have a real personal relationship with God survive this life. People ask me how I am able to manage my family and all the other stuff I get myself into and the answer is GOD! He answers my prayers and does above and beyond what I could ever think or ask.
This year, I have seen God
bring together an incredible team of teachers for the program that I run at
school. It has been a year of my
dreams coming true! We put on an end of the year program showcasing all our
students! This team collaborated
and worked together seamlessly with no friction or problems. It was a beautiful thing to behold. They planned a show where our choir
would sing while the dancers dance and weaved the storyline in with our drama
team and it was awesome!
Things were going so
smoothly that I was in a constant state of shock. The only little hiccup that we were experiencing is our
soundtrack didn’t come in before our first rehearsal, which didn’t bother me
because we had several days until the show. We paid extra for express delivery
and I had complete faith and peace that we would have the music. My dance teacher and I both prayed and
asked God to bring it to us on angels wings! I asked many people to be in agreement with us and to be
praying.
The day of the show our
music did not come in the mail. We
all went into to overdrive calling manufactures, distributors, postal workers,
thinking of any possible way we could get the music. We wanted our soloist to shine on their own, without the
voices on the CD. I ran into
Teresa Rogers, a school teacher at BCS and she casually mentioned that her son
had been in this same play 20 years ago at Neptune Baptist Church. I thought that was cool but didn’t
think much else about it. My
sister in law, as usual, swooped in and was racking her brain for a solution,
working for hours trying to solve this problem. 
She asked me if there was any way possible that a local
church had the music…..ding, ding, ding and I remembered Neptune Baptist!!! I called my dear friend Nels Gyland,
who works at Neptune Baptist, and he happily put me in touch with an “angel”
named Lucy who went across the street, searched their library and found a
cassette tape of the accompaniment music that we so desperately needed. I was so very blessed that she helped
us! I rushed and got the tape and
another “angel” Pastor Luis, spent 2 hours after work getting the music
transferred on a CD and separated all the tracks for us!
In the meantime, ANOTHER
“angel” Mrs. Abraham at the Downtown post office found our lost package! We talked Dan into driving to the post
office meeting this sweet lady in the parking lot and rushing the music back to
the church in case the one Luis was working on didn’t actually work.
The music off the cassette
was a little different but our Choir/Drama teacher jumped right in with the
kids and helped them make the changes.
James McDonald calmly managed our sound even though we had never
practiced with the music! It was
kind of a set up for a disaster on stage but it put us in a place of faith,
trusting that God didn’t want these precious children embarrassed and that He
truly wanted them all to shine!
The show started and except for a minor breakdown of one of our little singers,
which actually added a little extra “drama”, the show was flawless! It was a true miracle before our
eyes. Would it have been nice to
have had the music ahead of time, been completely confident in our preparation,
of course! That would have been a
show that we produced in our own strength. What we experienced is God showing
up and showing off that He answered our prayers and truly delivered our
music on several “angels” wings!!
I am moved to tears when I
think about the efforts of so many people that sweetly, sacrificially worked tirelessly
to help make our show so wonderful for our families!! I want to personally thank Tiffany Hartman, Tiffani Casey,
Lisa McLatchey, Jill Stanton, Jason Trent, James McDonald, Cara Bernreuter (who did the awesome program!),
Luis Montiel, Carrie Wyatt, Lisa Burdette, BC Staff and the complete strangers that out of the
goodness of their hearts, helped us make it a special, miraculous night for
all!!! The scripture in Psalms
133:1 that says, “how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together
in unity” has become real to me in a whole new way and I will never forget this
experience!
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