Jury Duty

This week started off with John going in to the Ann Arbor Courts to see if he would be chosen as a Juror. We found out today that he is one of the lucky "winners" that get to sit in on a trial that I'm not aloud to know anything about. So of course my interest is more than peaked! Oh well, I'll find out when it's over I guess. In the mean time I enjoy hearing about the processes involved with his role as an upstanding citizen. Perhaps I'm too enthusiastic about it, since I'm not the one who has to sit there all day (8 to 5), I try to tone it down when we talk about it. :)

I also see this as the most recent blessing of a string of blessings that we have been blessed with. Ha! That's a funny sentence, but true. First John gets a notice about taking those tests in Columbus for some job opportunities, then we get a babysitting job that helps pay for the trip. As we wait for the results and pray that one of them will be for us he gets jury duty, providing a small amount of money that will help tremendously. He has applied to other places since taking the tests, but no bites. Of course we are hugely blessed by our families! It's more than a little frustrating to feel like the heavy stones around their necks. We love them so much and look forward to the day we can repay them in some small measure. For now though, we wait, and try to feel Heavenly Fathers perfect love for us. Sometimes it's hard to feel anything other than throat-choking-anxiety (at least for me), but really looking at our life and recognizing all we have to be thankful for helps allot.