God Answers Prayers...

We know that no problem is too big for God, but do you know no problem is to small for God?
God will provide a strategy for every problem, we just have to ask Him! 

We have a gorgeous little doggy named Zoey and our girls absolutely ADORE her, as does Shane and I. Zoey has a sweet temperament and she is loving, gentle, fun and playful and loves the girls in particular. We've had Zoey for over 2 years now and as you can imagine she is very special to us.

When first thinking about travelling around Australia on this journey of ours, we first thought that we would definitely be taking Zoey with us. We thought there was no way we could possibly ask the girls to part with Zoey ( they were already giving up so much ) but once we started to look into travelling with a doggy, we quickly realised it would be too difficult for both us and Zoey to drag her around Australia.

We found out that Zoey wouldn't be allowed in a huge amount of national parks. Zoey wasn't allowed in many caravan parks and the caravan parks that allowed pets wouldn't allow us to leave Zoey in our caravan unattended. That would be a problem when we went to church on Sunday's, or a theme park, a zoo,or anywhere really. We realised we couldn't just leave her in the car or tie her up somewhere, we just couldn't do that to her, it just wouldn't be fair on her.

We eventually told the girls we would have to leave Zoey behind and try to find a temporary home for her. That was a difficult conversation to have but we all eventually accepted that was the best solution.

We soon found out that we couldn't leave her with family, so we were out of ideas. We felt as though it was WAYYYYY too much to ask anyone to temporarily home Zoey for 12 to 14 months, it was too BIG of an ask.

We decided we would pray hard about it and so we did. We prayed to God and asked Him if He would find someone who would like to temporarily home Zoey until we got back from our journey. It had to be someone who would offer to have her and would be happy to have her without us asking or even hinting!

Within 2 or 3 days of praying, Shane was at the girls school talking with one of the mums whose son is in Serena's class, they were just talking about our trip ( Shane and this Special Lady, Deb often had a chat at school drop off ) and then this Special Lady randomly asked Shane " what are you going to do with the dog?" Shane said, " I don't know, we may have to consider giving her away."
Do you know what happened next??
This Special Lady offered and actually decided on the spot that she would temporarily home Zoey for us......WHAT!!!

Shane came home and told me about the conversation he had with Deb. We were book shocked. We asked her to think about it because it was still very difficult for us to accept her offer. We love giving but find it hard to receive and I guess that's probably the case with a lot of people...Its easier to give than receive especially when its such a HUGE thing like this!

I cried ( as I do ).....God answered our prayers! Of course GOD answered our prayers!

You know I've never officially met this Special Lady until the day that she had Zoey at her house. This special Lady asked to have Zoey at her house that very weekend just to see how Zoey would go with her dogs and without us.

This Extremely SPECIAL Lady sent from God has BLESSED us TREMENDOUSLY and she barely knows me. Who does that for someone? Someone special and sent from God does that!
God planned it, God answered our small prayer. God heard our hearts and our children's hearts and he came up with a strategy for us. God is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!

God ANSWERS prayers, no matter how big or small they may be.

THANK YOU God and THANK YOU Deb for doing such a selfless thing for us, you are a true blessing to us xo

Thanks and Take Care,
Dimi xoxox