Mysteries in Life
I was rushing around trying to cook soup beans and bake homemade bread for
the funeral of an old gentleman who was instrumental in starting the Church I go
to in our town. His daughter told me she went to get him from the Nursing Home
for Christmas dinner and that all he wanted was my
soup beans. He died before he could have them so she wanted me to fix them for
the dinner after his funeral.
Because it was Christmas time the florist was closed. I was the Treasurer of the
Church so I needed to go to the local grocery store and get some fresh flowers
to represent our church. I didn’t have a car and the grocery store was over a
mile away. After kneading the bread I left it to raise and hurried off to the
store. I prayed and prayed that someone would be there that I knew, and would
give me a ride home before my bread got ruined. The clerk found me a couple
dozen beautiful long stemmed red roses. As I was going to the checkout counter a
friend saw me and asked me if I needed a ride home. God is so Good!
That might have been the end of the story, but God has a way of allowing one
thing to happen in answer to something else that is going to happen.
About a week later I was shopping at this same grocery store. When I came out of
the store heading home someone called to me. It was the lady that had given me
the ride home. She had another lady with her so I went back to tell the other
lady how God had used this lady to answer my prayers. After I got finished I
headed in a different direction home that I don’t usually take so I could avoid
what may have been a bad situation. On this route as I walked down the street
near a second hand store, I smelled a natural gas
leak. I told a lady that worked in the store. She came out to check it out, but
couldn’t smell anything. I couldn’t either. I knew I smelled the gas! I kept
walking back and forth, back and forth, then all of a sudden I could smell it
again. Then, she could, too. She said, “You can’t always smell it.” I figure it
must have leaked out intermittently. God is so good. He had me there at the very
time that I could smell the gas as I walked by. We never know how God is going
to use us even when we are diverted from the familiar paths we take.
MYSTERIES IN LIFE
If you could but know what tomorrow would bring,
Would you do what you’re doing or change anything?
The future is a mystery to all of us here,
But, if our lives are surrendered to God we have nothing to fear.
Norma Wellman
butterflyblue7@frontier.com