Saturday, April 6, 2013

God is good! ALL the time!!

Today I was in Wayne, NE just checking out all the stores of my future home...and we happened to walk by a store of new and secondhand items for children...my mother and I of course stopped in and started picking up clothes for me to take to the children at the orphanage. Well the owner of the secondhand store wasn't around but someone was working in Jacob's Room..he told us that the secondhand store only took checks or cash..and I didn't have enough cash on hand because it's all just been in my savings account until I go over to Uganda..we asked if they would take my out of town check and he called his boss..his boss didn't actually own the secondhand store..they just wanted to make sure people could get in there if they needed to..she told him on the phone to have me just make the check out to her and she would cash it on Monday to give to the owner of the other store..and kept asking him if she was making a bad choice with the chance of the check bouncing...we told her multiple times it would not bounce and kept re-assuring her I had plenty of money in my account and told her what I was doing with the clothes and this mission trip I am going on...her attitude instantly shifted and I heard tears in her voice...she then gave us 10 baby books (a $70 value)..and anything else we would like to take that had a duplicate of for up to $50 in value...it turns out that she lost her son...and that's why she opened the store in the first place...God is so amazing for who He places in our paths..at all times...and we don't even have to meet in person! Thank You Lord!!!!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.