answered prayers

every so often there is a story circulated about a guy that buys some milk and ends up going to a house and wondering why he's doing it. turns out the family has no money and the baby is hungry and needs milk.

yesterday while i was on the way to los chiles i decided to buy wiring for my family's house. the house is very old and the wiring is something else, to say the least it's pretty scary. there is no light in the living room and when i wanted to buy a fan for the living room, so they wouldn't burn raid mosquito coils under the chairs they were sitting on, i was told not to because the wiring was too bad.

i had no idea what to buy and asked the hardware store to phone the house and talk to the dad to find out what we needed. the price - the clerk wrote out the bill, i pulled out my money - it was exactly what i had.

i had just spent a lot of money going to panama for the weekend and even though it wasn't cheap it was just in my head to buy the wiring yesterday. for awhile now i had thought it might be something that next year's team could help with.

when i got home and showed it to mimi she showed me a box of receptacles patricio had bought last saturday, two days before i bought the wire. she said they had an unexpected deposit in their account and decided to buy the receptacles. she and later jose told me they had prayed about the wiring and asked God to provide what they could not afford.

i didn't know they had bought the receptacles and i didn't know before i left the house yesterday that i was going to buy the wiring. last night when patricio got home he told me he had been worried about the wiring causing a fire and he had wanted to replace it. they had gone to the bank to take out their last $15 and found they had a couple hundred. the walls in the boys bedrooms were literally rotted and falling off so they were able to put up new walls as well.

God works in mysterious ways and sometimes we just get thoughts and need to act on them.