I was trusted with someone's $40, Thursday to buy a turkey, then give them the change back. I know it doesn't sound like much money, but it's the principle. As it turns out, Wayne brought home a smoked, honey-glazed turkey breast and a smoked, honey glazed ham from work that night, so we didn't need the $40. So give it back.....but wait....where is the $40. I had it folded and separate from my money. It's nowhere to be seen!! Oh, crap!!
I had bought one of those cute little kangaroo pouch for my purse at BB&B, tried it out, didn't like it, took it back the next day. I was sure I checked all the little pockets in this thing before I returned it. Now it's Christmas Day, and I can't find the money. Since we didn't have to buy a turkey, I was about to have to chuck up $40 of my own. (which I do not have to spare).
After checking all pockets in clothing, and purse, I resolved to go back to BB&B this morning and check all the kangaroo pouches for the money. So that I did!! Found nothing!! Even asked a checker if they had put the return items back on the floor. She assured me they had.
OK, now I'm depressed!! Looking in the air vent of the dryer and out in the yard where it blows, I am one stumped woman on a mission!! Now, it's not just the principle, or the money! NOW, it's CURIOSITY!! What on earth could have happened to the money???
I have never been one to ask God to help me find something, like..."please, God, help me find my keys". I've always thought there were plenty other things, more important for him to tend to. Plus, I kind-of, sort-of thought it was my stupidity and dealt with it myself.
There's a first time for everything!! I prayed "Father God, I know this will sound so trivial to you, but I really need to find that $40 today. I'm asking you to direct me in the way I should go, or if I spent the money,which I pretty positive I have not, but if I have, show me where I spent it. I ask this in Jesus name and claim it in the power of the blood he shed on the cross for me. Amen"
I looked at all my recent receipts to see if I paid cash for anything. Nope, I used the debit card for everything. Mary Ann came home, we ate lunch, all the while feeling mopey, downhearted.
I was looking in my purse for the umpteenth time, and there with a folded $10 coupon from Penneys to use til the 31st, was the folded up $40. Yes, you could say, I never lost it. You could say, I just overlooked it. You could say, why did he wait on me to beg him, why didn't he just direct me to do that in the first place? HE DID!!! REMEMBER?? For the UMPTEENTH TIME!!!! I am convinced that God had me look in my purse ONE MORE TIME. The coupon felt too fat to be just a coupon and so I checked it out. Had not done that before.
May sound silly, but this brought me to tears!!! Even if it's fault of our own, God pulls through for us. He cares about the smallest things in our life. Thank you Father God for caring and loving me. This is the way I see it, so goes the label.
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