"I just ordered it. It should get here Wednesday."
"Good. Where did you get it."
"Amazon. Here's the best part! I've been wanting one forever, and thought I really had to save up because on the KitchenAid Web site it's listed for $500 or $600. But, I looked recently and it was on Amazon for $280."
"That's quite a difference in price!"
"Yeah, but that's not the best part. I had a $50 gift certificate to Amazon left over from Christmas from DH's mom, MIL."
"Oh! Are you going to give it to me? Thank you!"
"Nope! I used it. On my mixer. Then, when I went to order it, I noticed there was a $40 rebate, so I'm going to pay $230 from my account, but after the mail-in rebate, I'll only pay $190 towards the mixer."
"That's great."
"And guess how much money I got total for my birthday!"
jon1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And practical too! Ron you should have done the > old man a favor, and asked Mom to stop starching > the sheets...
I swear. That's exactly what he said. He also told me when I was 17 to sew all my wild oats because after I got married sex would be a thing of the past. :/
When I proudly announced to an already married friend that I was going to get married, he said very dryly "Why,..are you tired of blowjobs?" .........I thought he was joking...
I guess god must not love me or my wife, because we had to pay full price for our mixer. I could have really used those savings too. Maybe I need to pay more tithing to get a better deal.
This kind of stuff helped get me out of the church. One particular example I remember was a long, tearful, detailed testimony by a woman of how god blessed her with a rocking chair so she could rock her baby. Apparently god really listened to this mother's prayers and a way was opened so she could have the rocker.
I found it really disturbing. What, god would give her a rocking chair but ignore the thousands of mother's who implore him for their sick or starving or otherwise endangered children? And why was I seemingly the only person in the ward disturbed by this concept?
I attended a F&T meeting when my sister's baby was blessed. This is a way out, remote ward. Their ward basketball team had won some tournament that week and most of the meeting was thanking god that they were so blessed to be able to win. My thought was what god had something against the other church team?
How come when things go well, it is only because god blessed us but when things go bad it is because we have sinned or god wants us to grow?
Life happens. We make decisions and that causes other things to happen in our own life and those around us.
I was also really annoyed by these things when I was TBM. I had a medical problem and it was holding me back from my desire to join the military. People were constantly telling me that it must be god's plan and I should pray for acceptance. Then after 2 years of my finding medical experts, paying for them, and relentlessly bothering my congresswoman for help to get into the military, I was finally allowed in. People told me how blessed I was.
I didn't ever expect anything from prayer and resented it heavily when people attributed my accomplishments and the congresswoman's work to faith and prayer.
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Usually though, praying for your lost keys is to take time out from the frantic search and let your mind collect itself, and then it rememembers where to look.
Please God, don't neglect a frightened person in favor of my car keys...