We Are Watched Over

Because of budget cuts on the state level, we along with many others received a substantial deduction in pay.  What makes this difficult is that the cost of living continues to rise. Our family was in a bit of a pickle with some pretty significant bills to pay.  With our state of affairs, I could have thrown myself into a frenzy but for some reason I maintained a calmness.  Probably because of knowing through past experience that everything seems to work out and because I was trying to exercise a bit of faith.

Well, I was quite thankful when Bro. Allen from BYU-I called and informed me that they had a large number of students needing piano instructors.   Because of these large numbers I will be teaching 14 students this semester.  This amount will help us pay for all the extras that have come up.  

For example, contacts are very expensive.  Catherine has just began wearing them for the first time.  Because she is far-sided and has an astigmatism, the cost of her contacts comes to about $400.00.  Wowsers!  

Sarah needs her new supply of contacts.  Another few hundred dollars.

Because of a diagnosis of a small noncancerous tumor in her pituartary gland (a fairly common issue), Catherine has had 3 MRI's in the last year.  The last prognosis was that the tumor was no longer(we are very thankful) so no more MRI's are needed at the time.  Meanwhile, the MRI bill is a big one.

Sarah has taken medicine for epilepsy since she was 12.  Because her EEG came back with normal indicators, and also her sypmtoms of seiszures have not occurred for over a year, she was taken off her medicine (again we are extremely thankful).  Having an EEG is another big chunk of money.

And of course, we wouldn't want to leave out car problems.  Our Mazda just received a brake job and our van needs to have it's All-wheel drive repaired.

Not to mention all the school fees that come up each year.

My point of this entry is to acknowledge that the Lord watches over each of us.  We feel thankful that options opened up so we can pay our bills.  We are also thankful that these expensive medical procedures have led to improved health in our family.