Cameroon

God provides. Not only has He provided a storage trailer as mentioned in an earlier entry, but he has also provided in so many other ways in recent weeks. He provided for my parents to come visit over Labor Day weekend during which Dad and I tackled a series of projects around my house in anticipation of listing my house for sale, tasks I didn’t have the time or skill to handle on my own. He has provided commitments from my first few prayer and financial partners and 3 speaking engagements so far this fall. He has even provided me with a great group of kids in my classes again this year and a classroom big enough to handle all of them. (That alone is an exciting thing for me considering I am in a district that has gained approximately 500 students since this time last year!) The list could go on and on.

It is entirely too common not only in our society, but also in our daily lives, to dismiss God’s providing hand as coincidence or something of our own doing. A speaker (Dr Tim Brown) at chapel in college once suggested that we “dust off the furniture of your ordinary lives for the fingerprints of angels.” What a great image! If we examined our lives for the hand of God with as much effort as one searching for finger prints, imagine what we would find!