He surpasses my expectations

My husband likes to mimic Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, etc., pretending to say that "Jesus will save you if you send us money." The place I volunteer at is having a banquet on 9/25. They gave me an invitation for my family. Well, the banquet is free but you can sponsor a table (so more people could come) for $44 or half a table for $22, but I was really afraid my husband would lump this in with Osteen, so I hid the invitation for a couple days and was praying he wouldn't be offended whenever I did get the courage to show it to him. My in-laws asked if I wanted to go with them to Hawaii, but I told them no because they'll be gone till 9/26 and I didn't want to miss the banquet. (I'm serious, it felt SO RIGHT in my heart when I said I'd rather go to the banquet .. than HAWAII!!!!) So Chris asked about the banquet and I showed him the brochure, expecting the worst. (Like, he might even tell me to stop volunteering for them.) Guess what he said? He said of course we can go to the banquet, and he said sponsoring one table is only half of what we'd pay if we actually went someplace nice for dinner as a family, so he told me "Let's sponsor two tables."

ZOIKS!

Wow, wow! I can hardly believe this! I don't know how to thank God for so much more than what I asked for. God keeps doing this! I prayed that I just didn't want my husband to throw a fit and instead he was genuinely happy to write a check. Wow, God, I'm amazed by you.

1 Cor. 1:31 As the Scriptures say, "The person who wishes to boast should boast only of what the Lord has done." (NLT)

On a kind of sad note, my "friend" (the one who keeps hurting me) emailed and told them that she didn't want to volunteer there anymore. I know she likes being the boss and leading things, so it probably was hard for her just being a servant there, stamping 100's of envelopes, etc. But I love it there.