We did the July 4th run again this year, and this time Sarah ran with me. The plan was that we would run one mile, walk one mile, run the next and so forth; this would mean that we would run three miles and walk two. However, we started going, and after the first mile Sarah was feeling good, so we kept going and ran two. After the second mile we stopped and walked at a quick pace for the third mile; we felt good, so we ran the fourth. At this point I thought that Sarah was doing great, so I said, "You're doing great. We are not stopping until the end." So that's what we did; we ran 4 of 5 miles in one hour and one minute. This is the longest Sarah had ever ran IN HER LIFE! She has been working hard for this race, and achieved some milestones along the way; she had never ran two miles in a row before, so she accomplished that, then ran three miles and now she did FOUR! I was, and am still, very proud of her and all the work she has done to get to this point. That's the first bit of good news.
So, as you know, Sarah has started school and has also gone to part-time at work, which means our expenses went up and our income went down. We had to put her first school bills like enrollment, parking and books on credit, since we didn't want to wipe out our savings and more. The expenses came to about $2,400, and they were all due at once. Well, yesterday Sarah's boss called all the employees into a meeting and started talking about how profits were down about 20% and, come tax time, if they didn't get rid of some money they would pay a lot more in taxes. So, they decided to give the employees a $5,000 bonus. They actually gave Sarah the check right there; after taxes it came to about $2,900, which will more than pay for her school expenses for this quarter (we were not sure how we were going to pay for all this, except that we kept praying that God would provide a way as he always has). This was so amazing, it nearly made us both cry when we got this. All we can say it that God is good and He does provide.
