This was a really good post Samuel. It affirms a thought I had yesterday, well a thought my daughter brought up. Yesterday, she had been so excited to spend her $1.25 on the vending machine when summer camp was done for the day. The whole night before she had been dreaming about buying cinnamon sugar pita chips because she heard they were so good. So she was saving her money for it. When I picked her up, she was visibly upset because they had restocked the vending machine and put parmesan garlic chips in front of the ones she wanted. We ended up going to Target and the chips she wanted were on sale. Not the tiny bags from the vending machine, but a large chip bag for $2.50. So i bought her two of them. As she tried them out in the car, she exclaimed that these are "so good." She said - maybe God really wanted me to have a lot of cinnamon sugar pita chips today!

I thought about that, and she is exactly right. We talked about how maybe God didn't want her to spend her $1.25 on a small bag of chips, and thats why they were blocked in the vending machine. That God loves her so much and knew how much she was anticipating the chips, so he wanted to bless her abundantly with them! A little lesson from a little kid on a small scale - but was really meaningful to me. That God is not just a God who wants ordinary things for us, but He is God of the Extraordinary. That maybe the marriage I was going to have before my husband's affair was going to be just oh so ordinary, but God loves me so much that He wanted the extraordinary for me. Anyways -- thanks for posting. I hope your daughter is doing okay - please keep us posted on that.

Thanks Samuel. I come to the AR library looking for a drink from the fountain at lunch time. Today you provided it. Its much better for things to be in place according to God's plan than our plan.