I sat and I cried. Literally, I cried. Real tears of despair, hopelessness, and pain, but not even for myself.
The last two weeks have felt as though I was tossed into a nightmare, never to return to what I used to know as reality. Tears for family, tears for friends, tears for those I have never met many many miles away. The difference is while I cried, I prayed. I buried myself in scripture. I’m so thankful to be able to say, I have a friend in God, and a relationship close enough to call him at the wee hours of the night, just to say Help me Lord, and so I did…
The above paragraph was actually written two days ago. It’s all I had the strength to say. I was seriously in a place of darkness, yet for those I care about I put on a smile and listening ear, all the while I was crushed. I had run out of encouraging words for those looking at me for guidance. My source of daily encouragement needed to trade places, and I just had no words. This is not an occurrence that happens often. I’m still not ready to face the reality of all that has happened, so it will not grace the blog as of YET. So this brings us to today.
If you’ve been following my blog for some time you know that I had to send my main camera off for repair two weeks ago. I obviously was a little less than happy, and still unsure as to what happened to it, but you can read about that here. So anyways, I get an email from the Geek Squad today saying, “We need more information!” I read the email and was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You took my camera two weeks ago, why are you just now asking for this. Off to the store I went. I get there and the guy says, “Well, I’m not sure what’s wrong with it, neither is Canon.” As I look at him with an ignorant look I’m sure, because he was not saying what I wanted to hear out of his mouth. My mind was already plotting how to grab him up by that little skinny black tie around his neck…and well you get the point. “I’ll be right back” he said. I think the longer he had me standing there, the more frustrated I became, until it happened… Oh yea, another “IT” moment. He said words that sounded like hearing “I love you” for the first time from that special someone that you knew meant it from the pit of their being. (I digress, wooops). “They are just going to replace yours with a new one, here is your receipt, pick it out, and take to customer service.” Umm excuse me? As my voice went back to it’s most sweetest sound again… As he repeated himself. I went to pick out my NEW camera, and found that it was on sale! So now I get to customer service and she goes, “Oh we’ll give you a store credit.” Cool I thought, a new camera and a store credit of a couple hundred bucks? Wow it’s my day, finally! Well as she scanned the last thing, the register opened and said give her the cash, CACHING! “Wow, this has never happened, but I guess you’ll get the cash back.” I just smiled in awe of what was happening, and the man behind me said “I’ll take whatever she has!” As I was leaving the counter and heading past that man, I stopped, I smiled, and said these simple words… “It’s called Favor…”
Have a beautiful weekend.
I’m going to break in my new camera at an event I’m shooting tomorrow night, because all of my faithfulness, my fasting, my friendships, my pains, my love, my patience, my praying was NEVER in vain, God Favored Me…
Ps. A year or so ago, someone told me my business name had too much “GOD” in it… (BeU stands for Blessed, Encouraged & Unique), and well let’s just say I didn’t hire her as my business consultant. So if you’re ever offended by my mentioning of God in my blog, there are plenty others out there to read instead, seriously.
God is FIRST in my business, because without him, I wouldn’t have come this far… Heck, I wouldn’t have any of this to start with. It will NEVER come out of my business, because HE will never come out of me… Be Blessed.
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