Keep looking out the window

Have you ever prepared dinner and had just enough food for those family members you were planning for when behold another guest or two or three show up at dinner time? Woah, what will I do?

The options are to open up a can of vegetables, add a salad, or dig through the refrigerator as quickly see what you can toss together asap. Well, even if you can’t find anything, isn’t it amazing that when you bring out the extra plates (switching to smaller plates helps) and divide the food up, the portions would be smaller of course, the conversation would be lovely and everyone would “truly be satisfied.”

Or maybe you experienced this – what you’ve eaten for dinner last night was the last thing you had in the pantry to make a meal. There is no more money to go to the market for tomorrow’s dinner. You know you can cook up an egg, or eat a bowl of cereal, or break out the “pb&j”, but where oh where will dinner come from.

Suddenly, your sister calls and say, “hey stop by I made some rice, beans, carne asada and “chile”, pick it up on your way home from work.” As God as my witness I have broken out into immediate prayer giving thanks.

That’s the kind of God we have. An on time God. One who cares, one who loves. What’s my point? “Don’t worry – be happy – be confident – God will provide! He has a h-u-g-e family and he’s got them to help out. He’s working it for you!

Have faith and patience for your blessings. They will come. Keep looking out the window – there might be one there now!

Inspired by Mark 6:34-44

When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already very late. Dismiss them so that they can go to their surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” He said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?” He asked them, “Howe many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out they said, “Five loaves and two fish.” So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass. The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties. Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broken the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied. And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments and what was left of the fish. Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand men.