Grace like rain

God's grace is an amazing thing to me. Permit me to ramble a while....
I've had a rough week.
School starts very soon and I need teachers. I have interviewed many and have yet to find any qualified people.
My family went on vacation without me. I've never missed until this year. Every year of my whole life (almost), I have gone to Pawley's Island, SC in the summer. This year, they went without me.
I missed my dear friend, Scott's, wedding. My BF was supposed to picket outside, but I have a sneaking suspicion that she did not.
I was confined to my house during a referendum vote on Thursday. Nothing big happened...unless you count the gun shots outside my house the night before. Probably unrelated, but a somewhat frightening experience.
Yesterday, I came down with my THIRD round of food poison. I have lost significant weight since I arrived and I said one more round of food poison would do me good, but I seriously wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy...not even that April girl whose house I TPed in high school!
And then tonight, I am sitting here wallowing in my self-pity when God hits me with all of the goodness around me. I know I have said this a hundred times, but He has truly blessed me with Sarah, Joshua, and Edward. The time that He allows me to spend with them is so precious.
Not to mention my family...poor Daddy got hung up on during our weekly call yesterday when I had to go puke again, but he called today to make sure I'm okay.
I got to talk to my sister and the kids yesterday online.
I talked to my mother tonight online.
The unconditional love of family is such a God thing!
God's grace falls down on me like rain...and the rain here lately has been serious! It's just a picture of the way His love falls down and covers me, drenches me, really! Mukama ye bazibwe! (Praise God!)
(and if that's not enough..."You're the Inspiration" is playing on Edward's radio outside. You remember that song from the 80's, right? Was it Chicago? O, how I love 80's music. Good thing they like it here too! Just one more blessing from above!)