Thank you, Lord, for today. Today was a day where I did get many things done: a haircut, money order to help pay for the car, and cleanings and certain things.

You wouldn't believe what happened yesterday. I was at work and I worked all day from 2-11 praising God in my heart in melody and song and sound and prayed and read scripture on my break, as well as a few things to eat. I love the work the Lord's doing in my heart. He's really disciplining me at work. And so that evening, I was put on register 12 and was checking out the last few people of the night I think and then this man came through my line who I recognized as someone trying to pass through a bad check, because they tried to do it before and failed. I immediately went to one of my assistant manag.'s and told them about him, wearing a yellow shirt. And I asked them to keep an eye out. And so, I rang him up and the total was $309 worth of stuff: a flat screen monitor, a vacuum, pop rocks, and maybe something else. Then, he said, Hold on, let me run to my car, I forgot my checkbook!

So, I called the assistant manager, and the man wouldn't wait, and so he went and came back. I put the monitor underneath the register, along with the Pop Rocks. Then, he went away and came back. I did a line of customers and got back to him, and he said, 'Do you still have that monitor?' I took it out and rung it up. This time, he had an iron that brought it even higher. Then, he handed me the check with the fake name on it. I asked him for the ID, and he handed it to me. It was fake - looked fake and the picture was stretched out. The back looked like a photocopy of a license. In my mind, I was praying:

"Oh Lord, I can't pray for justice for this man. Oh my Lord, if you gave me justice, I'd end up in hell. So I'll pray that you'll have mercy on him.'' And I repeated this. And so, I was going to run the bad check through and let it print and then hit the other button at the Print Ok? screen and then go get the Supervisor to take a look. So, I put the check in the machine. It sucked it up a little, then, complete froze! I hit clear to see what happened, the machine completely FROZE!!! That's never, ever happened before and I've worked there for 1 year, 6 months, and have done all sorts of checks and all sorts of problems and rung up hundreds of people per day, and dealt with many bad checks and all the machine does is read the number, check it against the database of known bad checks, and print on the back!! But the register was frozen, which was nearly impossible because the one can't really affect the other, if you think about it!

So, I called the assistant manager over, and in that time, the man wanted to leave because he felt he could be getting busted. I prayed for him. So, the assistant manager said that he needed to reboot the system so he has to hold onto the check, and he left without the check! They can turn it in and track this young man... I'm so thankful to the Lord! He heard my prayer! He executed His justice in front of me and I'm so glad, He took it off of my shoulders. :-) What a day. Trust in the Lord at all times, He's soo good, He does these things without anyone knowing. It will all be revealed on Judgement day, but from what the Lord's showing and teaching me, I can't wait! I am so thankful for the mercy of the Lord. His mercy truly does endure forever!!! He delivers from such hard, and perilous things and moments, it's so amazing. I pray for that man, that he can repent, and put his trust in Jesus Christ, and see what a mighty thing the Lord's done for me in this age. Praise the Lord!