And so, it starts!!!!!!!

I would like to send a shout out to all my homies out there in blog world! It is so awesome to have people who love you and are standing with you and praying with you and giving to you. You all are incredible! You know who you are. We have received money, food, prayers and encouragement to overcome this state that had attached itself to us for the past few weeks. With gifts from friends, the start of the new job and the annual blessing via the government called "Income Tax Return" we are in a good place and are propelling toward the goal and the promise at a steady rate. The next time I am scheduled to play guitar on the worship team, it will be with my precious guitar that I had to part with for a very brief but difficult period. Credit cards which once labeled themselves as our possessions now are screaming "bloody murder" in a thousand little shreds at the bottom of the Hafner family trash receptacle. And so, it starts! The age of the fullness of the blessing of the Lord toward the Hafner family. The placing of ourselves under His "open window". The window of blessing which is always open yet not always positioned directly above us, (because we haven't put ourselves in the postion under it). I am encouraged and thankful, yet again, for His perpetual faithfulness. Thank you, my dearest friends, Kevin (and Ashlee), Erica (and Tim), Monica (and Doug), Brenda (and Jim), Trish (and Joel), Aaron (and Rachel), Jennifer, Becky (and Bryan) and all of you who selflessly have given of yourselves in some form or fashion for the benefit of myself and my family. Your kindness is exemplary of our Savior and will not soon be forgotten for it was the very thing(s) that got us through this season in our life. We love all of you and are eternally grateful for people who actually "are " the body and don't just "Talk" about being the body. For the "are"s can impact the world around them and make a REAL difference whereas the "talker"s are only hypothetical and theoretical. Thanks again all of you who "are" what you "talk". It has changed my life and I love you all for it.