I am glad that you liked my story about the found pin and my missed golden oppor­tu­nity that I shared with you more than a week ago. I have received a lot of emails from you, try­ing to reply as fast as pos­si­ble to all of you.

I found so many of your sto­ries very inspi­ra­tional. There are so many peo­ple out there that are enjoy­ing all the SPEC ben­e­fits for them­selves or their family’s bet­ter life. Because every­body can do it!

Thank you Anita for your story.

From Anita :

That was an amaz­ing story.  Things like this hap­pen to me all the time.  I have even started writ­ing dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ences down in a jour­nal.  It is truly amaz­ing the way things can hap­pen if you just believe it will. One of the most amaz­ing things to hap­pen to me  was Obama’s Inau­gu­ra­tion Day.  Here is my story,

The date was Jan­u­ary 11, 2009.  On this day, while talk­ing to a co-worker mak­ing copies in the work­room, I men­tioned how nice it would be to be able to see the whole Obama Inau­gu­ra­tion on Jan­u­ary 20th. We work at a school and the most that we would be able to see was maybe 30 min­utes to 45 min­utes. Par­tic­u­larly the part when Obama is swear­ing in.  I just said to her, ” I HOPE IT SNOWS ON TUESDAY!  I just laughed and went back to class.  This being such an his­tor­i­cal elec­tion, I wanted all the kids  to be able to see it on TV.

All week long  this was on my mind.  I even told fam­ily mem­bers that I wished we could watch the entire Inau­gu­ra­tion. This was such an excit­ing moment and I didn’t want to miss a thing.

This was the first time I had ever wished for snow. I never wished for it because if we miss a day of school because of snow, we have to make it up on another day.

Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 19 rolls around and the Obama Inau­gu­ra­tion was heav­ily on my mind. Today was another impor­tant day.

It was  the Mar­tin Luther King Hol­i­day and all schools were closed to cel­e­brate. I was hop­ing we would have Tues­day off to watch the events on TV.

When I wake up on Tues­day morn­ing, it looked unusu­ally bright out­side. I looked out the win­dow and all I saw was a land of white snow.  I could not believe what I just saw.  I just gasped.

I imme­di­ately thanked God over and over again for this beau­ti­ful day. A few min­utes later I get a recorded phone call from the school sys­tem say­ing, “All schools will be closed today for staff and stu­dents.”  The sur­round­ing coun­ties’ schools were closed also.  Well, most of the states’ schools in my state and other states were closed today.

Wow!  We had the MLK Hol­i­day off  and now Obama’s Inau­gu­ra­tion Day off too!  Amaz­ing, awe­some and out of this world!  Not only did I get to watch the event, but my own kids as well, because col­lege classes were can­celled as well.  I believe and I know pro­ject­ing works.  It worked for me even though I was just think­ing out loud. Fam­i­lies were at home together because of the snow, so they
got to see the Inau­gu­ra­tion as well.  There weren’t many cars on the road today.  God made sure of this.

To top today off yet again,  I received another call from our school sys­tem say­ing Wednes­day we will have a two-hour delay. This allowed us to sleep a lit­tle later after stay­ing up later than usual.

Before get­ting to work I was able to pick up sev­eral Obama news­pa­pers before they were gone.  When I got to work, every­one was talk­ing about how they watched the Inau­gu­ra­tion events all day long.  Me Too!

Orig­i­nally, Fri­day Jan­u­ary 23 was a teacher work­day, no classes for stu­dents.  Instead to make up for the snow day, we had school.  The fol­low­ing Mon­day was an optional work­day for teach­ers also.  True bless­ings all around.  God truly takes care of us if we just lis­ten and believe!

A true believer,
Anita

There are no coin­ci­dences. If you wish to have snow, you will. Because every­thing works for you, just believe in it.

Do you have any lit­tle sto­ries to share? Great! Put them down if you want and start to SPEC for some­thing more if you wish.

And don’t for­get to keep me posted with your successes.

Believe and Receive,

Helene

09 Apr 2009