In 1998 we lost most of our assets...all we had built up over a life time of living carefully and building assets for the future. My husband was in Australia and we did not have enough money for the rest of the family to join him (It was 8 months before we could). I was recovering from a third car accident and resulting surgery. I was not well enough to look after my children so my sister took two of them. I felt as though I lost the person I had been as well as most of my talents and gifts. That Christmas I thought we would not have this and we would not have that thing as we always used to, but every time I thought "We won't have that this year", someone came around and gave me that very thing...and often bigger and better. A man from church gave us the wine and ham he had been given. Christmas cake, Christmas lillies, chocolate and money was given too. We lost so much but it seemed that because of that we ended up (like Joseph) in a place of blessing, where we were able to earn enough in the following 9 years to have a mortgage free home again and small retirement fund. It opened up a door for me to gain IT skills and software that I would not otherwise have had.

In 2007 I was wondering about giving up teaching and how God would provide if I did. Would he cause more of my books to sell and provide that way....would He cause more of my Art to sell and provide that way. A few days later I received an order for a class set of my book "You Can Make A Web Site". This was the first order of a class set of books and the biggest order I have had!

19th August 2007
I was asked by a colleague for my contribution to the following weeks morning tea but I did not have any money on me. I told him how it was my daughter's 21st the following weekend and the bathroom and laundry renovations had eaten my cash. That day I worked late and had to buy lunch ($1.50 for soup) and on the way to the cafeteria I found $5 (that no-one claimed) on the ground. I also got an email notification of an online sale of one of my books. This was the first online book sale I had made even though it had been online for some time...a year or more. So two days later when the money was needed for the morning tea, I had it. That weekend I had a luncheon to go to and as vice president of the group meeting, I didn't think it appropriate that I miss it. I was wondering if I would have enough to to pay for it. The sermon in church was about trusting God to provide. When I got to the venue there was a notice saying that lunch was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, but coffee and cakes were available. We all bought a drink and some bought cakes, which was at least 6 times cheaper than a meal would have cost! God had provided again!