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THE YARN OCTOPUTH

Our older three girls are putting on a garage sale. They did all the work and are reaping the proceeds. The sale went well for them yesterday and we’re hoping for a bang-up finish today.

There was one dicey moment yesterday. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying my darndest to keep Maddy away from the wares slowly accumulating in the garage. They include many of her old toys. I was afraid she would try to bring it all back into the house.

Soon after the sale started yesterday, she dashed outside and snatched her yarn octopus off the top of the stuffed-animal pile, hugging it tightly to her chest.

‘’My octoputh!’’ she screamed. ‘’You can’t thell my octoputh!’’

Shoppers looked at me in horror, like I was a hard-bitten, materialistic Imelda Marcos trying to make a buck off my kid’s favorite lovey.

Well, an older sister had put it in the sale. She had no idea that a good friend of Eden’s had made that yarn octoputh for Maddy, and it was very thpethial to her.

Good thing it WAS so thpethial and Maddy ‘’saved’’ it . . . because the MOTHER of the octoputh-maker, a good friend of MINE, and a recent widow who needs all the encouragement and support she can get, arrived at the garage sale MINUTES LATER. She would have seen that yarn octoputh in the $1 pile.

UFF DAAAAA!!!!!

And some people say the Holy Spirit only hangs out at church, not at mundane places like garage sales. As if.

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Prayer request: Praise and thanks for the success of the girls’ garage sale yesterday, Lord. Special thanks for the cute gentleman who quietly handed us all the antique and collectible tools that we only placed in the 50-center bucket because we didn’t know any better. He could so easily have bought them and turned them around at a huge profit for himself, Father, but he didn’t. Bless him! Praise You for people like that. My prayer is that the girls make mega-profits and everybody goes away happy as the sale concludes today. (2 Corinthians 13:7)