Monday, March 10, 2008

Coincidence or Providence?

Last night for some reason Matthew just couldn't sleep very well. Then it just so happened that Logan was coughing quite a bit so Matthew got up to give him some medicine. By chance he looked out the window at the neighbors lot and saw a tree on fire with 15 foot flames shooting up inside it and into the air just a few feet from the house. He ran to wake up the neighbor, who lives in another house down the road. There is no running water hooked up at the house where the fire was but coincidentally that same evening we had gathered about 6 or 7 buckets together in preparation for some work we were planning at our own house the next morning. Matthew filled the buckets with water and our neighbor grabbed 2 fire-extinguishers and they were able to put the fire out safely. Wow, how lucky was that!

PS - Just in case you missed what I was trying to say....God holds us in the palm of His hand and we can rest in that. Everything happens only as He allows it. Last night many were protected from potential harm because of the order of events orchestrated by the Lord Himself.