I had the neatest thing happen yesterday. At work while I was busy the thought went through my mind that I had to go a particular Rescue Mission store when I got off work. That makes no sense, its Christmas time and I need to do some more shopping and I certainly wouldn’t do it at the second hand shop.
I have been wanting to get my granddaughter a little kitchen set for Christmas but they are very expensive and in my opinion many of them are tacky looking. My ideal would be to make something out of wood for her but that requires more skill than any of us have and to buy a nice wood one is hundreds of dollars.
I found one online yesterday afternoon through a Walmart email that was very small but only $15. As I was checking out a message popped up that they were sorry but this item just went out of stock. I thought, “Oh well, I already got her a cute little set of pots and pots and that will just have to do.”
When I got ready to leave work I decided that since I wanted to stop by the grocery store and get a couple of things I would just go by the Rescue Mission store on the way home (which is a little out of my way) and go to the grocery store that is near there and then go home.
I walked in the Rescue Mission store and said, ‘OK Lord, why am I here?’. I grabbed a cart and began to make an outer perimeter sweep of the store looking over stuff on the shelves. As I rounded a clothing rack toward the back of the store there sat my kitchen set. It is perfect. It has a little sink, a stove, a drawer with two shelves in it, a microwave on top and on the opposite side of that is a little half table with two little placemats made into the top. It is made of plastic but it is in very nice shape and not tacky looking and it was $4.99.
I laughed out loud and said, “I should have known! Thank you Lord, you are so good, you’re just amazing!”
Then as I was walking along I noticed several packages of adult diapers that had never been opened. I called my daughter who helps to care for an elderly gentleman and she said definitely to get them. They use them all the time. The family pays for everything out of pocket and normally those are $12 a package. These were $3.99. What a blessing!
I am still learning to follow His voice when I feel that kind of prompting and hope to never loose the marvel at how He wants to bless us!
