When God Gives Nose Bleeds

No, God did not punch me in the face to make me have a bloody nose, but here is a story of God's provision and proof that He is BBBBIIIIIGGGG!

It all started in January 2010, before the Farrar-tale was EVEN a thought,  I was at the Bluffs just on a days work sitting at my desk, when I wiped my nose thinking it was running (because its cold in that office, we even had to buy a heater) when in fact it wasn't a runny nose, but my nose was bleeding.

Randomly bleeding

I think the last bloody nose I had was at a 7th grade soccer game, when the ball  hit my face at warp speed. I mean I couldn't even dodge it or head it. I am telling you it was going mach 5.

This was not that case...this nose bleed was random.

It really actually surprised me that I got a nose bleed, so at that moment I thought...what if the person I am supposed to marry gets a random bloody nose?!?! Then I would know!

So that night before my head hit the pillow I prayed a little something like this:

"God I pray that the person I marry would get a bloody nose, that it would randomly start bleeding just like mine did this morning. But he couldn't get in a fight or have gotten hit in the face. That it would just start. I't would be great before we make a decision to get married or our first meeting or even when we've been married for 50 years, it doesn't matter when, it would just been fun, but I pray BIG that my future husband would get a random bloody nose."

And I believed that prayer! I told my roommates, which led into telling my bible study group and it became a silly little joke. I am sure they thought I was crazy.

But, that wasn't much different

Yet, I mean the idea was crazy, but I believed it and when I would pray that my future husband's character would go before him I would also pray for a nose bleed every so often.

Then fast forward to June, as Pine Cove Summer 2010 was launching off. I had been running into this guy named Blake every so often that spring at Macalisters or Einsteins, but it wasn't till Week 1 of camp that we went on our first date.

Every saturday of the 11 weeks of camp we went on an exciting date and the relationship really started to move forward. When summer was over and he went on his first annual fly fishing trip to Montana and I went to Flagstaff to visit my parents. After these trips, it was planned that he was going to pick me up from DFW airport and then we would spend the weekend at his family Ranch where is grandma lives and his parents were going to meet us there.

Side note: if you know me, you know I LOVE ranches and have dreamed of having one...even if it was just an acre! If you don't know me, you know now that I LOVE ranches. So getting to go with him and visit the ranch was EXCITING AMAZING  A DREAM COME TRUE!

We spent our time touring on a four wheeler

Picking Pears for a cobbler
(the pears were hard as a rock.)

The BEST part was taking care of the cattle...

We coaxed them in with cattle cubes treats and sprayed them with fly spray, to keep away those pesky buggers

It actually works better to stand and get out of the truck...

Then we herded them into a pin, corralled them in the shoot, and put deworming and other things on them with help from the parents. 

Needless to say I was having the time of my life! If only the Pioneer Woman knew..she would be proud! 

Then, Blake and I had to go into town to grabbed some more cattle cubes at the small town, Hico, feed store, where they know Blake and the family! I am on a pure high at this point living the dream on a ranch, loving being with Blake, taking care of cattle, and enjoying the central Texas scenery. When all of a sudden I look over at Blake, he touches his nose, looks at me, and says,

"My nose is bleeding, that's weird I never get bloody noses, how did this happen?"

At that moment I stopped, starred, and laughed.

Laughed...thats what I did, I just laughed. Oh, then I tried to find Kleenexes in the truck, and laughed!

He jumped out of the truck to open a gate and I laughed some more while praising God at the same time and also thinking...REALLY God?! We've only been dating three months! Are you crazy...did I actually pray for this!?

I sure did and God answers prayer! I'm Married to that same, nose bleed, handsome rancher now!!

After that I was on Cloud 9

No, 10!

No 9, is this nose bleed really for real?! 

I learned that moment to pray BIG to a BIG God. It was a real prayer that I believed and God showed up big time. He showed up in abundance and provided all my hopes and dreams when it came to marrying a man of godly character and random bloody nose. 

I can't help but to praise God for giving so richly. It is stated over and over in Psalms of the abundance of God's steadfast love, and how full are his store houses of gifts to his beloveds, (36:8, 69:13, 72:16). 

I didn't tell Blake about God's mighty work with my prayer then, but continued to respond to his leadership, and told him the cold December night when we said, "I love you." 

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and the one knocks, it will be opened."

Matthew 6:7-8