| MONTHLY CURTIS NEWSLETTER |
| May, 2007 |
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| Greetings Family and Friends,
It seems like yesterday that I sent out the April Newsletter and here we are in the 2nd week of May. I�m thinking, I was late in April and early in May. I was pleased to hear from several of you after you received the letter in April. Sometimes, I don�t hear from anyone and it tends to make me think, maybe I�m doing nothing but cluttering up some of your inboxes. I�ve decided, to ask each of you who receive the newsletter to drop me a short note � like �add me� and I will then send only those folks on the list the newsletter. I�m sure my monthly rambling doesn�t capture all of you. If I don�t hear from you by the end of this month, I�ll cross your name off, with no hard feelings. I�ve thinking a lot about miracles lately. I�ve came to the conclusion that not all miracles are like �walking on water� revelations. I know a couple of people who have had a medical miracle. I know, that�s not many but it�s still a miracle when it cannot be medically explained and even leaves the doctors in awe. To some of us, an answered prayer is a miracle. Let�s face it, without that miracle some of us, would still be hanging our heads, shedding tears and still crying out for help. So maybe, that will fall under a miracle. Late last year, I was facing two very different and frustrating problems. One night, I just turned it over to the Lord. Telling him, I couldn�t handle it anymore and He was just going to have to handle it for me and that I knew he could. The next day � I guess I should explain. My car was having a big problem and it was going to cost over a 1000.00 to fix it. It wasn�t that I didn�t have the money, it was that I didn�t have a job to replace the money. The next day, the mechanic at a large dealership called me and told me, the car was ready. I asked him, what was the final amount. He said, you don�t owe a dime, because you have the 7 yr � 100,000 mile warranty. I could have danced all over the house, I was so thrilled. I was also praying about a job and two days later I was hired at the office that I�d hoped to work for. A couple of weeks later, the car again had a small problem and I took it back. They told me it was 300 bucks or so and I asked if the warranty would cover it. The woman told me NO that I had the 5 yr.-50,000 mile warranty and she printed it out and showed it to me. How it changed in a week �I didn�t have a clue, but to me it was a miracle that it was good when I needed most. I needed the job too and had just hit a low point and told the Lord, I had to have it �. I got it. Now to me, I wasn�t walking on water, nor was I blind and now I could see. However, I had an impossible need that was met. I�m now thinking that all of us probably receive miracles and we just don�t look at them, the way we should. When we�re down in the darkest valley of our personal lives, we do possess something that drives us forward. It�s a miracle that we don�t just give up and call it quits. However, I think miracles dwell in us, if we can allow ourselves to ask and expect a result. Of course, I�m not going to make you think I have a hot line. I don�t and I�m usually way in over my head before I ask � and even deeper into the pit of despair before I can totally hand it over � and then pray for a result. I can�t even say, I�m expecting a result �but at least I�ve reached the point of casting my cares. I�m really bad at surrendering. Really bad. If each of you, could take a moment and reflect for yourselves�. I wonder how many of you might have received a miracle. I wish I could say that I will turn things over to the Man upstairs immediately from now on, but I know I won�t. I�ll do my best to handle things my own way. Maybe for months or years before I finally cave in. I�m just grateful that He will allow me to use my free will because I do learn lessons from it. I wish my lessons could be shorter and they probably could if I wasn�t so headstrong and pure out stubborn about it. I�m not so na�ve that I think, I�ll get everything I ask for either. As I said, there are many lessons to learn with the word �NO�, just like there are many when you get the �YES� extra fast. Maybe we all can feel a little lighter �.emotionally if we can just take a five minute break and thing of our own miracles. I don�t believe they have to be BIG �I just believe when something is totally out of our control and it�s resolved quickly and completely without our assistance. Okay, this is my request �. First email me and let me know whether or not you want to remain on the Newsletter list and secondly if you have had a miracle you want to share, write me. Major or Minor � it leaves us in awe everytime. Goodnight and May God Bless You All ���� I do. Betty Jo |