Saturday, April 4, 2020

Mysterious, Unexpected Blessings

Two large boxes of diapers mysteriously showed up on our doorstep today.  My wife swears that she didn't order them, so we're not sure where they came from.  What's even more perplexing is that they had a gift note inside, addressed to my wife, telling her to enjoy her gift...but no signature, so we could properly thank whoever sent them.  As we struggled through a list of possible "suspects," nobody seemed to stand out.  My boss knew the correct size, because he had bought us diapers a couple of weeks ago, but why would he address it to my wife?  And I'm not even sure that he knows my wife's name anyway.  We had mentioned to other people that we'd been struggling to find diapers, but nobody else knew the correct size.  And on top of that, whoever sent them still had an old address for us, because they got the zip code wrong.

In the end, no one person had all of the information to be able to achieve this, which was driving my wife insane.  I finally told her that it doesn't matter who sent them.  We're going to take them as a blessing and a gift, and we're going to be grateful for them and praise God for this unexpected, albeit mysterious, windfall.  The stress of diapers is now off our shoulders.

For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on.  Is not life more than food, and the body more then clothing?  Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not worth much more than they?  And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?  And why are you worried about clothing?  Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you?  You of little faith!  Do not worry then, saying, "What will we eat?" or "What will we drink?" or "What will we wear for clothing?"  Matthew 6:25-31

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