Sunday I prayed for rain because the TV weather people forecasted rain. I thought if I asked God for rain I would be covered both ways. Well, it didn't rain. So I broke down and watered the flower garden yesterday. Then I tried to pull weeds in the herb garden and they decided they weren't going anywhere. I pictured the weeds with little hands down in their little roots holding steadfast to the dirt.
My husband working in the herb garden in May
when it was just a baby and the weeds were sweet.
So I had the bright idea that I would soak that stubborn garden today with visions of getting those little buggers tomorrow. I ran the sprinkler for seven hours while I was out today running errands with my mother. Of course, I also hung some laundry on the clothesline before we left, too. You guessed it. It rained while we were gone and it rained even harder after we returned. Now I have really wet clothes on the line but I'm looking forward to tackling those mean weeds tomorrow morning.
Because I knew I would be out and about today (and because I have a tendency to not want to be around a lot of strangers) I asked God to give me patience and to help me to play nice today. Of course this time he didn't delay in answering this prayer. It happened while I waited for my mother to get her prescriptions turned in at the pharmacy on base. I don't know how many of you have ever had dealings with the military or any form of federal government agency, but if you have you do not want to be in a hurry and you have to put aside any phobias you might have about being up close and personal with a lot of people. They pack you like a tin of sardines in that waiting room.
Of course when I have these kinds of errands with my mother I always take a book to read. That way I can ignore people without them knowing that I am really ignoring them. While I was reading a lady sat next to me at a time when I was looking up (not down at my book). We made eye contact and that's when God said go for it. I said nice dress and she just started talking. I heard about the walk she took around the medical facility to kill time, about her son who was shot in a drive by shooting(he is OK now) and the man she had been seeing who, it sounds to me, is a cad. She talked to me until they called her name to pick up her meds. All in all it was not an unpleasant experience.
God is good. He knows what we want and he gives it to us in his own time. However, Big Daddy, in the future, how about a heads up on the rain. Don't you know that we have to use a pump for our water? Please check out yesterday's blog dear Father and you will see that our electricity on earth is not cheap!
Just remember dear friends and neighbors. Be careful what you ask for. When you talk to God, you WILL GET IT!
Have a wonderful evening.
SCL
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