OR "Just Wash"
Recently, we faced a real challenge. We needed to come up with more than one-quarter of our annual income to pay for a mistake someone else made in less than a month. It was money we honestly owed, but someone else made the mistake. I could have gotten angry but this doesn't help. It also doesn't take away from the concern(fear) about how do you come up with that much money, without doing something radical, like borrow or sell a family member (this is a joke).
We don't have an emergency fund for 3 months of expenses as we are still working on debt. We did have the $500 that Dave Ramsey recommends for people with our income, but that wasn't even 10% of the bill.
God would have to work a miracle. He did.
Right before having to pay the bills (there were two), we received the stimulus check and went through our house gathering every bit of money we had stashed back. A little for vacation was here, a little for gifts was there, a little we forgot about there, and someone paid us for a little thing we did. All of it added together paid it.
Was it a miracle? YES, but it's so underwhelming it's funny. It is like meeting a hero and the comment, "I thought you would be taller," or Naaman who just had to "wash and be clean" from his leprosy.
I remember, just because it isn't a big show-stopping miracle doesn't make it less a miracle. It could be easy to mark up to chance. It isn't. It was God and I really need to thank him for it.
So I am, If you're not impressed that is fine. It is me that needs to be grateful and perhaps this can remind us both God works in ways that are very subtle and if we're not careful we might miss it.
