"Consider the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (Matthew 6:26)
4 years or so ago, we put our house on the market. That's a story for another place and time (and definitely another blog post!), but part of the process involved looking for more updated appliances for our kitchen.
So I started looking. "Craigslist!" exclaimed my very enthusiastic, thrifty friend.
And since her house looks like something directly out of a magazine - for literally pennies - I was inclined to listen to her advice.
As I was searching, I happened to come across a wall oven to replace our outdated model. It was a very odd size, and rather small. But the mysterious owner promised that it worked well, and was indeed the correct size. Once we got past the "generic Craigslist email" service, this nice woman and I started conversing.
And then we realized - we had a TON of friends in common! Her husband worked at an inner-city school sponsored by our church, and his college roommate was a friend of my husband's.
Crazy, no?
No.
And in God's wonderful Providence, who shows up at our Sunday School class today?
This. Same. Couple.
At a time when I was - honestly - needing a little encouragement myself, in walks The Oven Owner, the Oven Owner's Husband, and their two kids.
What a joy to tell her that I pray for her when I cook on that wonderful, fabulous, slightly-dirty (sorry, Mom!), perfectly functioning, well-used oven!
Turns out, she's in need of a little encouragement herself. I love how God does that. I'm hoping we can meet up for coffee or something soon. . . . . . . .
All because God has His eye on the sparrow. . . . . . .
And on Craigslist!
(P.S. What song was presented as the offertory this morning? Yup. You guessed it: His Eye is On the Sparrow. Love. It.)
And since her house looks like something directly out of a magazine - for literally pennies - I was inclined to listen to her advice.
As I was searching, I happened to come across a wall oven to replace our outdated model. It was a very odd size, and rather small. But the mysterious owner promised that it worked well, and was indeed the correct size. Once we got past the "generic Craigslist email" service, this nice woman and I started conversing.
And then we realized - we had a TON of friends in common! Her husband worked at an inner-city school sponsored by our church, and his college roommate was a friend of my husband's.
Crazy, no?
No.
And in God's wonderful Providence, who shows up at our Sunday School class today?
This. Same. Couple.
At a time when I was - honestly - needing a little encouragement myself, in walks The Oven Owner, the Oven Owner's Husband, and their two kids.
What a joy to tell her that I pray for her when I cook on that wonderful, fabulous, slightly-dirty (sorry, Mom!), perfectly functioning, well-used oven!
Turns out, she's in need of a little encouragement herself. I love how God does that. I'm hoping we can meet up for coffee or something soon. . . . . . . .
All because God has His eye on the sparrow. . . . . . .
And on Craigslist!
(P.S. What song was presented as the offertory this morning? Yup. You guessed it: His Eye is On the Sparrow. Love. It.)
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