Learning to give over a cup of coffee

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today my wife and i got to talking about how God has blessed us more then we can count. almost everything in our house has been given to us. when we first moved to Germany we didnt have anything to start out with. i was just a young Airman who had just moved out of the dorms and into my first house. she was just a young girl who had been moving from country to country and had nothing. i mean i literally had nothing when i moved into our house 2 1/2 years ago. i rented our first house and was intending to sleep on the floor until i could buy a bed. God wouldnt have that. my supervisor at the time saw my need and just gave me a couch. then he just gave me a coffee and end tables. then my land lords asked if i had anything in the house as they had not seen me move anything in. i told them what i had (which again wasnt much) then they offered me a bed frame. they told me that i would have to buy a mattress, but that i could keep the frame. several days later they asked me if i wanted their couch set. that they were going to be getting news ones in and wanted to get rid of their old ones. of course i took them up on their offer. although the couches were not the best looking. i mean they were lime green. but at least they were couches. now let us fast forward about two years when our good friend was starting to PCS out. she started getting rid of all her things in an effort to leave this place with as much ease as possible. seeing that chantal and i only had one car with a baby on the way and my crazy work schedule she decided to give us her car. WOW! what a blessing.... i could go on an on of how God has blessed us and provided for us but what this comes down to is this. chantal and i started talking and came up with this: we want to start giving to others as God has given to us. we have been tithing for quite some time now and we both feel that slowly God is starting to have us give above what we are asked to...... i thank God that He has blessed us enough that we may be able to bless others in the same way.... i know that ending like this doesnt really make much sense but there is nothing really to say other then God is good and i am thankful for His unending provisions, unending goodness,and unending love.