$50.00 April 22, 2009

So we had a guest speaker at church that was nothing less than absolutely phenomenal!!  Anyway, the fiance’ felt to give him $50.00 which is fine with me, but I wasn’t exactly sure where we’d get it.  We had it, but an oil change would have to be put off until the next paycheck and blah, blah, blah. 

Then I came home from work on Friday and the fiance’ said there was a card from my landlord’s sister with whom we’ve hung out with like once.  It was a really sweet card with a $50.00 bill inside for the wedding!!

I told the fiance’ to just put the whole thing in the offering for the guest speaker if he wanted to, but he wanted to make sure we had enough to cover bills and the wedding – I just told him not to worry about it and I know the Lord will provide.

So just short of a week later, the fiance’ was reading the Bible that’s in the bathroom.  When he came out, he was extremely surprised to find a $50.00 in it!!  He asked if I knew anything about it and I just said yeah, that was my dad’s Bible (as if that was enough information to suffice) and told him to just consider it a wedding gift from him.  The fiance’ just looked at me with a blank face as I obviously did not clear anything up with my statement, so I went on to explain.  I didn’t know the money was in there, but I did know my dad always kept cash in his Bible(s) as he was a child during the Great Depression.  I thought I cleaned his Bibles out of hundreds of dollars immediately after he passed, but I obviously missed this bill.  The only other explanation that my fiance’ thinks is way more cool is that Jesus supernaturally put it in there.  It is a bit odd that neither of us has ever happened upon it as we both read that Bible in the bathroom.

Either way, we agree how awesome it is that a generous thought turned into provision for that thought and an obedient action turned into yet another surprise provision.  I was reminded of something I heard my pastor’s pastor said once (or a dozen times) . . . that if you just let all the money that comes your way flow out, then you’ll see more and more money flow in, but you have to keep the flow going in order to see more of a flow – if that makes any sense, that was my paraphrase.