This past week was Super Summer Spectacular at our church, Abundant Life. Every day we worked at Maaco (the kids and I) and every evening I dropped them off at church from 6-9. I think everyone is a bit exhausted by the end of the the end of the week. By Thursday the parking attendents started looking slightly ragged.
As a rule, we don't follow orders well when told to park at the church - I admit it. But I purposed to follow the wildly waived directions this week. The first night I was ushered into the very farthest row from the church. I steamed inwardly at the parking attendents all night for "picking" on me. Tuesday night I asked God for a better parking spot, and I watched the cars in front of me ushered to the back row, but then I was waived up to the front. GOD ANSWERS PRAYER! After gathering all the kids from their locations and arriving quickly and safely back to the van, we got in a very long line to exit the parking lot. It was nearly 9:30 before we got home and settling kids to bed carried us past 10pm.
Some time during the rush of days piling into nights, this sunset lit up the whole sky. I blasted the Christian radio station and rolled down the windows to let the evening air rush in, praising God for always listening and taking care of me. As I neared the parking lot I realized that He's always taking care of my parking spot whether I ask or not, and sometimes.... sometimes He's already planning something better for me than I can think up myself. I happily pulled into the lot ready to park wherever the attendents waived me. I ended up in the back row again... but we got home at 9:10.
I had this overwhelming sense that God would give me what I asked for, but He was already carefully guiding it before I even asked.
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