His Mercies are New Every Morning
By jenny | March 2, 2010
Two weeks ago. Coming to the end of my old, worn down, gross make-up and sample size face cream and wondering, “When will Clinique have Bonus Time? I am out of moisturizer! Out of eye cream! Using dried out eyeliner and bacteria infested lipsticks from college! And I’m broke! I’m on stage looking like a pasty ghost.”
Last weekend my girlfriend casually tells me, “Hey, I placed a call to Boots Make-Up and SkinCare. They want to endorse you for the up coming tour and give you their complete line of skin care and make-up… it’ll be at the house when we get back from our trip this weekend. I didn’t believe her. So I prodded. Moisturizer? “Yep!” Eye cream? “Yep!” Eye liner? “Yep!”
“And Jenny, like, they are sending me one of every thing they have right now.”
I went to Target. I crunched the numbers. That’s about $500 of free product right there. More than I possibly could have needed or would have ever thought to ask for.
His mercies are new every morning.
(even if they come in a tube of lipstick)
Enjoying my favorite Albuquerque cafe, The Flying Star, while my parents love on Annie.
Good parents make great grandparents. A perfect cappuccino; homemade tiramisu; free Wi-Fi; more e-mails, blog comments, and text messages of encouragement and love than I have ever received flooding the screen in front of me; and a table that looks out onto the Sandia Mountains makes a very tired girl really, really happy.
His mercies are new every morning.
Playing in the ocean for the first time with my beautiful baby girl.
His mercies are new every morning.
Getting fun pictures and special letters from fans. In this case, “Your Biggest Fans: Jeremy, Tawny, Mackenzie and Mallory. The ones from Quincy, Illinois.” And realizing that the smiles on these girls faces are memories they are storing away in their bank of beautiful life moments, and I get to stand in the middle of that and be a part of it for just a second… and how amazing is that?
His mercies are new every morning.
The Dr.’s office said we would have to pay a $2,000 deductible before we could start surgery on Friday morning. We had about $500 in emergency cash. I had 24 hours to find $1,500. I called the hospital to see if there was a payment plan we could use. There is, she said: after you meet your deductible.
No deductible, no surgery.
We went to bed without the money. I had no plan. The plan was just to show up and see what would happen.
We got there at 6:00 a.m. and the girl who processed us through the system glanced over the papers and said, “I don’t think you owe a deductible. It doesn’t look like it. I’m not sure. It looks like what you will owe today is $950, but you don’t have to pay it all at once if you don’t want. How much could you put down today?”
Ryan and I looked at each other. Do we smile? Laugh? Cry? Point out that, no, in fact we do owe a deductible and spent quite a bit of time on the phone with your billing bully yesterday who informed us that we could not come in the morning without the money?
We were shocked.
She was clearly not looking at the right paperwork. And she had obviously not been to the meeting where they said, “No deductible, no surgery.” And the lady who talked to me on the phone the day before almost certainly does not like this girl, I know, because she was NOT following protocol. She let us breeze through, with, yes… only a $500 payment.
I gave Ryan the “RUN!” look. Run before the billing bully comes or the young girl realizes her mistake or before the IRS shows up at the hospital to take the surgery money for the taxes we owe 
RUN!
RUN! We will get the bill for the deductible… but that morning the girl read the papers wrong. Or the papers were wrong. Or something happened and all of a sudden we had the gift of time. And when you have the gift of time, you have a moment to figure out your next move. Your next step.
Someone at Ryan’s home church, First Baptist Weatherford, heard the story of our terrible week and handed his mom an envelope on Sunday morning.
It had 15 $100 bills in it.
That makes $2,000.
His mercies are new every morning.
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31 Comments
Lauren on March 2, 2010 at 10:06 pm.
Jenny this makes my heart sooo happy!
I can't wait to see you tomorrow and do lots of fun things on this tour and help with sweet Annie. I have some more make up for you, but DEFINITELY not $500 worth 
mom selling mary kay=lots of free stuff. just a couple fun things coming your way tomorrow. I'm so happy you're doing your favorite things today… can't wait to see you and Annie!
Lisa on March 2, 2010 at 10:10 pm.
Awesome! It's so cool to see how God comes through for us in ways we never even think to ask for.
Tiffany Dawn on March 2, 2010 at 10:41 pm.
I love this. God is SO SO FAITHFUL!!!
One of my fav songs (besides AR songs of course) at the moment is one by Cory Asbury called "So Good to Me". It pretty much ALWAYS lifts me out of a funk and helps me remember how GOOD our God truly is!!
Thanks for sharing Jenny! (the good & the bad!)
Saving_Grace on March 3, 2010 at 12:06 am.
that is so awesome…:D
Madison on March 3, 2010 at 12:27 am.
Wow. The power of prayer is pretty amazing
bcreasman on March 3, 2010 at 2:13 am.
It is awesome to realize that prayers are answered. I pray each morning that God will " provide for you, take care of you, and meet your NEEDS." I guess I'll just keep on praying and God will keep on providing. We love and miss you guys and are anxious to see a NC date on the tour. Great picture of you and Annie at the beach. Tell her NC granddaddy and grandma miss her too.
Jennifer on March 3, 2010 at 3:54 am.
They sure are!
Lisa on March 3, 2010 at 11:13 am.
God will provide what may seem small & provide for the things that appear to big to handle. Beautiful God that He should care about our needs.
mommymovesagain on March 3, 2010 at 12:28 pm.
God is good! And you look beautiful! Annie is getting so big!
Brandi on March 3, 2010 at 1:34 pm.
Wow, his mercies are really amazing!! He is always listening
Erin on March 3, 2010 at 1:39 pm.
I'm praising God with you. So thankful you shared this – it's such a reminder of God's blessing, mercy, faithfulness and love.
Stacey on March 3, 2010 at 2:53 pm.
Yes Jenny HIS mercies are new EVERY SINGLE morning…soooo many times the Lord has come through for us when it came to our babies, we too are in ministry and faced many financial burdens or so we thought, HE IS AN ON TIME GOD!! I believe with all of my heart HE likes to show up at the last minute to show us once again, HE has our every step ordered and that HE loves us and our babies more than we could ever imagine…more goodies are coming when you get to Arizona!!! Blue skies and the most perfect weather a sure refreshing for any tired spirit!!! Rest in HIS love today!!!
RaVae Erickson on March 3, 2010 at 3:29 pm.
Amen, Amen, and Amen! Sharing your trials (if only on a blog after they have happened) brings joy to my heart (not because you have to go through them or because I wish that upon you-don't think like that!) because you share the good, the bad, and the ugly…and the really, really good!
For being honest: thank you.
For sharing your entire life with us: thank you.
For the constant reminders that life is not that bad: Thank you.
Be blessed today dear Jenny. Can't wait for your new single (or your new CD!!!!).
Julie W. on March 3, 2010 at 4:13 pm.
Jenny – I love you.
I've never met you, never talked to you, never even seen you in person and yet I love you.
You are such an honest, loving, amazing Woman of God. Every time I read your blog I am renewed and encouraged and changed.
I thank God for the miracle of you.
Be blessed!
Julie
Rebecca on March 3, 2010 at 4:36 pm.
MAN! the tears are a flowin'!!!
PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD! i am so thankful to hear about how God provided for y'all in this (and all) situations, jenny. this is the good stuff. God is so good. His timing is so impeccable. He's usually not ever early, but definitely never too late. 
thanks for sharing, friend!
Casi on March 3, 2010 at 4:37 pm.
Great post! His mercies are new every morning. Your blog always challenges me and today it was a reminder that God cares and He will provide.
Love the pic of you and Annie in the ocean!
Amy on March 3, 2010 at 4:50 pm.
God can absolutely show mercies through new lipsticks. I have no doubt about that. Beautiful post girl. I had little tears in my eyes reading. Thanks for sharing and praise to God for always providing.
Elissa on March 3, 2010 at 7:31 pm.
I think the important thing here is that you ARE thankful, even for the small things. Too many times people get so caught up with life they can't see the little things God does for them. And it's the little things that make the difference. When we can begin to see and acknowledge all the little things, then God can give us more!
Luke 16:10"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
1 Thessalonians 5:18 "give thanks in ALL circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
kara on March 4, 2010 at 3:57 am.
Wow. How awesome is our God. Your life and your stories are constant reminders that God is ultimately in control and he wants nothing more then to flow down mercies. You sure got the rainbow after the storm.
Baby E & Me on March 4, 2010 at 4:58 am.
Yeah!!!!!! I've been thinking and praying for ya'll!!!!
misskerri on March 4, 2010 at 6:37 pm.
God is so good. He meets us in our place of weakness, and says "Here, I'll be strong for you. Put your hand in mine & trust ME" So excited to see how Abba is providing for you, even when you didn't ask for it, or wondered if it was too small for Him to care about.
Enjoy your capp & the Father's love today.
Stephanie on March 4, 2010 at 11:33 pm.
I love it! I love you heart and I'm excited to see where God is taking you on this crazy adventure we call life! =) I'm so glad we get to be on tour together again! =) His mercies are new every morning! =)
bransblahg on March 5, 2010 at 3:01 pm.
Hello! I ventured over here at the suggestion of your mom (I HOPE it was your mom!) when she commented on my blog.
The makeup pictures have me drooling! ;o)
So happy to hear that your needs were met with such a gracious donation…. I love that in our moments of need God allows that so that someone else can listen to His prompting to be a blessing… the end result is He is glorified in your trust in Him, and through the person that obeyed His prompting to lend a hand.
I look forward to reading more!
Brandy
SMiLE ~ JESUS LOVES YOU on March 5, 2010 at 3:36 pm.
Yes they are!!! Thank you for yet another amazing post. So great seeing all the wonderful things God has been doing.
Loved the pics too!! Love you! Have a greatly blessed weekend!
cathyjoy on March 5, 2010 at 4:12 pm.
Jenny – I was so bummed to miss your show in abq. had been looking forward to it for weeks – but then life reared it's (sometimes) ugly head and i couldn't drive down. I feel like we are friends even though we haven't ever met…I'm hoping to change that on the Music Boat in November! I am SO excited to be going and to hear you and to possibly meet you. So…here's to our next chance – I pray that it will happen!
cathyjoy on March 5, 2010 at 4:13 pm.
and…your little squirrel is soooo adorable! i voted for #1 – let us know what happens with regis and kelly! :O)
Tonya on March 6, 2010 at 3:26 am.
Hey Jenny, I read often but don't comment. Just wanted to let you know I gave you a blog award on my blog.
My Kids' Mom on March 6, 2010 at 2:51 pm.
His mercies are new every morning. You were on my heart when I woke this morning. I am praying for you guys.
Emily on March 6, 2010 at 6:12 pm.
Jenny- I have to say that I have been in love with your music since I first heard it- it is such an encouragement to me. I am thrilled to have stumbled across your blog, and to know some about what's going on in your life and how I can pray. Your music and your heart have blessed me, and I hope that my prayers will bless you even a fraction of that amount. Much love and many prayers from KS!
loveisonthemove on March 7, 2010 at 4:46 pm.
I love your transparency
You are so right…his mercies are new every morning…keep on SHINING!!!
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