Twenty-Six Lists - Lucky Days

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Welcome to Twenty-Six Lists! I hope you'll join me in this simple link-up, where I share a writing prompt for some kind of list, and invite you to share what's on your list. Your list can be very simple or include lots of explanation; short or long; a bullet point list or essay style. Interpret the list prompts however you like, depending on how much time you have to spend, and how much background you'd like to share. 

This time around, since we've just finished St Patrick's Day, which has a lot of luck and good fortune associated with it, I thought a fun list prompt would be "My Lucky Days". There are lots of directions you could go with this theme! Do you have some favorite days on the calendar that are special to you? Maybe there are certain signs that you believe mean good things are coming your way, or maybe you have your own personal 'good luck charms' or practices to make sure you have the best possible day. Is there one day of the week or of each month that is really special to you, a sort of lucky day? Or maybe you'll look back and pick out some events in your life that turned out to be very lucky days for you. I think that's what I will do.

Here are some events in my life that brought me blessings and goodness. I don't know how much I want to attribute to "luck" but for lack of a better term . . .  

My Lucky Days:

• I sure wish I could name a day on which I won a jackpot in the lottery! That would be a lucky day! But I didn't. But I think this is a fun story to start with, even though this is not even close to a "luckiest" day ever, but I did win a year's worth of Tim Horton's coffee once! It was a website giveaway, and I think it was to promote openings of a bunch of American stores. So a year's worth of Tim Horton's turned out to be $500 in Tim Horton's gift cards! We had no Tim Horton's near us at the time, but we had some vacations planned to Canada. I sent one of the gift cards to my parents in Alberta so the family there enjoyed lots of coffee and donuts on me, and we used the rest of those gift cards over the next several trips to Canada. Our summer vacation that year was to New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and we joked that Tim Horton's was the proud sponsor of our trip.

• On to more serious "lucky days" . . . It was a very lucky day when I met my husband, though I don't remember what the date was on the calendar. We first met right around Labour Day, at the beginning of the school year, but didn't really start getting to know each other until a couple weeks later. We were in some classes together, and we happened to wind up in a little group that regularly went out for coffee together, and the rest is history!

• I consider the birthdays of each of our children and grandchildren to be lucky days because having these people in our lives has brought us so much happiness and so many good things!

• Except for my current job, my jobs since moving to the United States have all been due to the happy chance of knowing someone who thought I might be interested in a job opportunity. I have twice been a paid musician or worship director at church, I have been the Receivables treasurer at church, I helped establish a high school tutorial co-op which led to a paid gig tutoring, and that in turn earned me a recommendation to tutor in a hybrid middle school, friends put me in touch with the owner of a coffee shop and roastery that needed a shop manager, and while my husband was with his last employer they hired me as an office manager. 
• It wasn't exactly MY lucky day, but it was certainly a series of fortunate timing and coincidences that led to my husband's job opportunity in Ohio and our move here. He was job-hunting, and was contacted by someone who had heard from a mutual industry acquaintance that he was available and might be a good fit for an opening. In that first conversation, my husband mentioned that we were open to moving somewhere within a day's drive of both Maryland and Columbus, and surprise! the job opportunity was near Columbus! After a phone interview they wanted to know if we could come for an in-person interview, maybe during the last week of October? And we had already planned a trip to Columbus for that week anyway, so it sure worked out well!
• And speaking of coincidences, our other big lucky day experiences started way back in 1993 when my husband entered his name in the "green card lottery" so we could move to the United States. It's a long story and worthy of its own post (which I promise I'll do sometime), but here's the shortest version I can manage. His name was drawn, and once he had secured a job offer, there were a series of lucky days for us to finish the green card process. And the job offer itself was a very lucky thing because it was job he hadn't applied for but came his way by an amazing coincidence. 

Our green card lottery and job offer experiences could be considered luck by some, but I know that the coincidences were planned by God, and not left to chance at all. I told some of the story a bit over a year ago: How We Won The Lottery

The dice are thrown into the lap,

but their every decision is from the LORD.

~Proverbs 16:33~

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 

~Psalm 139:16

How would you describe your lucky days? Please share.

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Bonus List: The next few list prompts so you can think ahead!

April 2 - Favorite Candies and Sweet Treats

April 16 - Favorite Childhood TV/Games

April 30 - Flowers

May 14 - Books

May 28 - Family Traditions

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