It is time to announce the winner of the first Southern Belle with Northern Roots give away!
so.......I thought I would tell you about a fabulous contest I won, a few years ago.
The local am station 970 had a contest called you guess em you got em they gave hints, you guessed the prize...but.....had to keep adding to the list, you see no one won until all 10 prizes had been guessed. It kept building. you guess one, get the next hint, next caller names the two and guesses the third and so on until all 10 prizes were revealed. I listened everyday......and missed every clue and every guess.
Really.
Well. One night after a particularly bad week, bad because of my attitude, I had been rather bullish and rude to my husband. He had another kidney stone attack.........he has many!! I was irritated with him, can you believe that? He missed work, we were behind on bills and I was a nasty fool. No sympathy from me at all.
That night I dared ask God to win that contest, as if , what had I done to deserve to win such an awesome gift. I listened to the radio, caught someone going through the list,and missed half of it.......
Now....I promise there is NO exaggeration here.
I woke up the next morning, without the alarm.....and I am not a morning person. just before 7 am
I stood at the radio......... heard the key to call..... didn't get in . Listening and writing intently I was able to fine tune my list, they took 4 callers. All of them went through the list, naming all 9 prizes.......all guessed the last prize wrong.
That clue I had actually heard a couple times....ideas swimming in my head, narrowed by the previous guessers.... the last guess had been 970 hot dogs.
NO!!
OK
wait for it
wait for it
within 10 min the contest was on again.....caller 10!
I dialed with my cell phone in one hand......land line in the other......another miracle if you knew my coordination.
And yes........caller 10 was me!!! My heart was nearly pounding out of my chest!
Now...for the list. The one I had just filled in all the blanks by listening to the other callers.
The radio announcer asked.....did you listen to the clue?????
me- Yes
announcer....did you listen to the guesses??
me- Yes, is it that simple???
announcer.....yes!
ok we are on....live.......Shannon, name the prizes
ME- #1 $970 in cash
#2 $970 in groceries from local grocery store
#3 $970 in gas
#4 1 years free car washes
#5 trip for 2 to Las Vegas
#6 a Holland gas grill
#7 a hot tub
#8 a Honda ATV
#9 a 52 in plasma tv
announcer......yes and number 10?
me- hot dogs?
announcer- simpler........
me- A HOT DOG?
all of a sudden the Hallelujah chorus began to play....really! the announcer said I had won....all 10 prizes!!!
Now I thought of posting the blood curdling scream of a middle aged woman that just lost her mind and all sense of self respect...but I am not going to.
I woke up my children, they came running. We woke up my husband, he had only been asleep for a couple hours.......you should have seen his eyes when the tv came up!
God blessed us with an amazing prize package, because I asked him to, NOT because I deserved it. I didn't. God did it because he is God and his specialty is blessing those who do not deserve it. I had a calendar with scripture on it. The verse for that week was.....James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights who does not change like the shifting shadows.
Indeed.
Eating the famous hot dog at the radio station
The hot tub!!
We don't skinny dip......we chunky dunk!!
