The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways

Mom, you really pulled a joke on me the other day. I was just getting over a complete breakdown after the Ash Wednesday service when I pulled out the Christmas you didn't get sent. Inside you had written, you hope we were coming back for Christmas. You know, you didn't have to start bleeding internally and die to get me home. I was planning on coming back anyway...even spend some extra time with you...at least more than I usually did. After I settled down, I reread the card and a thought crossed my mind that told me I needed to read your book, "Prayerobics". So I got it out of all your stuff, and started reading it. In reading one of the chapters, I had an epiphany, an ah-ha moment, or like in the cartoons, a light bulb went on over my head.

The chapter I was reading was on asking God for a miracle. I didn't realize there were different types. I thought a miracle was a miracle. The part that really hit me was when the author was driving on an isolated road in Africa and his car broke down. He did not know how to fix it and because the road was so remote he knew another vehicle may not pass his way for a long time. So he told God he needed help and asked God to intervene. God did. Not only did God bring the author a mechanic but one that spoke English, both of which were rare in that part of Africa.

I think I have been going about some of my prayers the wrong way. (The author also has a chapter on being careful what you pray for because you just might get it.) So because of your card and your book, I have now been praying for God to make an intervention, to intervene, in one of my relationships. I do not know what that intervention will mean but by making this prayer, it is finally out of my hands and with God. Maybe now both of the parties involved in the intervention will hear what God has to say to both of them.

Out of this praying for an intervention, and where the Lord working mysteriously, is my co-workers son came in to visit her today. After he left, she told me he had been renting her house but he and his wife just had their offer accepted on a house so they would be moving. I asked her what she was going to be doing with her house and she said she would probably re-rent it. My ears perked up because I have been looking for a house to rent that had a fenced in backyard. Knowing my co-worker, I know her house will be in good shape so I told her when the time came to rent it, I would be interested in discussing the monthly rate. Who knows, because of the health problems of this person, maybe she would end up selling it to me on contract...assuming of course I am staying in St. Louis.

God's love is great. Sometimes I just can't see it.

Love you both.