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the couch story

A little while back Wim and I discovered that our couches needed to be replaced. How did we discover that? When we started to get holes in our pants because the metal springs had pushed their way out! Still they were useable so we just dreamt of buying another couch, when in reality it wasn't really an option. 

We looked on a 2nd hand website and tried to find a good deal, but either the couch was nice & too expensive, or a decent price & bad condition. Not very helpful for us!

One Sunday a friend from church called me up and asked if we were needing a new couch. Shocked and excited, I told her that actually we really did need one. To which she replied that her mom wanted to give their couch away. Why? Because she tried to sell it on that 2nd hand website but people offered so little money (€200-300) that she preferred to give it away for free to someone who needed it! So we got a couch... a NICE couch, and one that definitely fit in our budget hehe :-)

And the moral of the story is that God cares about every detail of our lives. We always say that nothing is too big for God, but it's also true that nothing is too small for Him! This was just another great reminder for us that God sees us and He cares.We hope that you will experience the same thing even today! Lots of love!

double doubting done

I want to share another experience we recently had with the supernatural (above the norm) provision of God.

We have two kids now... tada! Ezra is obviously a baby and can't walk and Nora can walk, but she's still small enough that she doesn't listen so well and will just run everywhere. So I was looking into buying a double stroller. Some friends of ours generously gave us one a few months ago, but it was a side-by-side one which was next to impossible to maneuver through the grocery store aisles. So we sold it (they said that we could do whatever we wanted with it) and wanted to buy one that had the kids sitting one in front of the other- more narrow and able to fit through aisles for shopping. 

I had been looking on Marktplaats (it's the Craig's List of Holland) and had found some nice strollers, but there was one in particular that I liked- it was a Chicco Together. I emailed with the man who was selling it, he was willing to give me a discount on the price and I almost bought it-- but in the end we decided not to because it was in Amsterdam and that was just too far to drive to buy a stroller. So I let it go and I'm pretty sure somewhere in my heart I was asking God for a stroller like that one. 

A week or so later, I was looking online again and I saw another one of these Chicco Togethers. But this time it was in Harderwijk (much closer) and the name of the person looked familiar-- it turned out it was someone from our church. I emailed with them and in the end they decided to just give us the stroller! The nice thing was that they didn't even know that we were missionaries living from gifts-- they just wanted to bless us! 

So God saw my desire/need and met it in a way that I didn't expect at all- but it was so nice! Thank you Papa!

May He provide for your needs and desires in an above the natural way today!