Giving To Others

Today started off  being a wonderfully productive day.  After getting the kids off to school, I picked and canned my beans,  I washed a load of laundry, I ran a load of dishes, made a pot of beef stew (using up the last of my celery, potatoes, carrots and 3 steaks in the freezer) and it was only 10:00!   Off to a great start!  Next, I decided to make up some freezer cucumbers using the last of my cukes that were ripe.   Checking my recipe again I saw it called for pickling spices.  Okay, just get some out of my spice drawer.  Nope, none there.

 Just then, dear husband came home, we ran a quick errand, and then he gave me $15 cash to run to the store with (so I didn't have to use a check).  He went to work, I went to the Amish store where I buy my spices in bulk.  After picking out what I needed, I reach into my pocket for my money.....and there is none.

  No where.  I checked the aisles, the parking lot, my vehicle.  I came home and checked the driveway, my trail to the mailbox I had gone to.  Nothing.  That money may as well have disappeared into thin air.

Now, fast forward to after I get my purse and go back to the store and pay for it and get back home.  I recheck with my recipe to see how much of this spice that I need, and what?  What does it say?  Pickling salt?  Not pickling spice?  Hmmm.....

In conclusion, I have decided that God knew someone who needed $15 today, and he needed a way for them to get it.  I was just the vessel he used to get it to that person.  I am not angry, not bitter and I'm even  relieved that my cucumbers won't have little pieces of spices to get into my teeth when I eat them.  And I'm happy to have been a servant today.