{"id":413,"date":"2013-05-09T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=413"},"modified":"2013-05-09T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:02:18","slug":"tax-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/tax-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God has a kind sense of humor. And he does speak in interesting ways.<\/p>\n<p>This month is a heavy month for me. At first, we hope with the move to our own house, we could start saving. Who knows that after 2 months, our expenses still eats into our savings. And for our great delight, my company paid a bonus this month. It was such great delight to initial sadness that this month we still can&#8217;t start saving.<\/p>\n<p>However, just last week, my eyes suddenly can&#8217;t see properly. I was panicked, afraid, and felt very downcast. This time is my right eye that suddenly can&#8217;t see properly. All the negative thoughts came&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The visit to the eye doctor proved to be too much. The bill was a bomb. I didnt expect the bill to be so big. And for the whole week i was thinking about it. I could have waited, and not spending that amount of money just to check if my eye is ok. I do thank God however, very much, for the fact that nothing wrong with my eye. It&#8217;s scary if there&#8217;s something happened.<\/p>\n<p>And today, i went to see the optician and asked her to change my new contact lense. Because the problem was my degree came down by 25. A small decrease, yet i can feel the difference and bothering me a lot with my work in front of computer. Again, this optician charged me alot for this small adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight, we went for groceries. Thanking God for my super wife. And our daughter that she waited patiently, no crying. When arrived at home, there&#8217;s only 1 letter in mailbox. Looking at the title, it&#8217;s from Tax department. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So i opened&#8230;and to my surprise&#8230;.this year I don&#8217;t need to pay tax!<\/p>\n<p>Thank God a lot for the relief. I spent a lot already for my eye. And the Lord answered immediately with no tax payment at all. 0. What a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God has a kind sense of humor. And he does speak in interesting ways. This month is a heavy month for me. At first, we hope with the move to our own house, we could start saving. Who knows that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/tax-surprise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,100,33,51,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fatherhood","category-joyful","category-providence","category-thankful"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1334,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":0},"title":"Updates &#8230;:|","author":"clay","date":"November 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"thank you Lord for another interview tomorrow when i'm depressed of \"short future\" again You cheered me up also yesterday ef called me, then i had chat with ci rosi... thank You Lord for using her to cheer me, and remember that You are in control, will always give what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Encouraged&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Encouraged","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/emotion\/encouraged\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1554,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/a-day-to-give-thanks\/","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":1},"title":"A Day to Give Thanks","author":"clay","date":"October 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On the 10th day of the 10th month, God affirms His tender care and providence upon our family. 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