Unlikely Provisions

Well, supper is on the stove and the children are getting ready for play practice but I wanted to sit down just a second and tell you about God’s awesome provisions. He’s showing us how faithful He is in ALL things.


In July, we took a family vacation to the mountains. Had a wonderful time. We hiked every day. On one particular day, we decided to hike 2.5 miles around a lake. Nature Boy, for whatever reason, was sullen and didn’t want to go. That was highly unlike him, what with his love for all things small and scurrying. Well, it was not 10 minutes into our walk and a garter snake crosses our path. After my initial, “Ok. I’m leaving. I am NOT going on this trail!” lecture, we started again on our trek around the lake. When I say “we”, I mean “we” as in our family of eight and “JP”…named after Julian Price Lake, of course. Nature Boy had completely forgotten about his unhappiness and his previous quips of “This is going to be boring” and was very happily engaged with his new buddy, JP. They have a habit of walking faster than I, so I was at the rear of line just taking in the magnificence of being out in “wild” with God and His creation. He came tapping, as He is accustomed to doing to those eager to listen.


I was watching Nature Boy on up ahead on the trail, watching how he was taking in JP and, because of JP, now taking in the surroundings. God knew what it took to make Nature Boy happy. God, our loving creator, knows each of us. Knows our quips and qualms, what makes us tick, and what makes us happy. He knew that Nature Boy loves snakes and (now PAY ATTENTION) we hadn’t seen so much as a snake skin thus far on our vacation. Though he had looked, trekked, poked his nose into all kinds of nooks and crannies, no snakes were to be had. God sent JP just when Nature Boy needed him. *By the way, we never saw another snake the rest of our vacation.*

Around October, we started finding mice and shrews on our back sidewalk. Fresh, DEAD mice and shrews. Now, we’ve been here over 13 years and have never had a rodent “problem”. God is very thorough in His care. As I was scratching my head wondering what in the world all of these little critters were doing showing up practically in our backdoor, God showed me how He was yet again providing…for JP. Up until the weather turned cold it was fairly easy to find food for him but with the colder temperatures, the small critters hide away until spring. So far though, at regular intervals, we find a little critter simply lying at the backdoor. Reminds me of the manna that just showed up every morning. WOW. If I were a shouter, I’d have to shout on that one. God doesn’t leave us comfortless. He doesn’t forget that we have needs, wants, desires, dreams. Just as He’s taking care of a little snake that He sent specifically to cheer up His little boy, He’ll take care of me. As the economy continues to spiral downward, as the car dealerships flounder, and Wall Street takes a nose dive, I can rest in the shadow of the Almighty with full confidence that He will supply my need.

He’ll supply yours, too, if you’ll only trust in Him…..


Til Next Time,
Lisa