Cathy Varner ... member of the body of Christ
Reading about how God helped Pam with her furnace repair reminded me of a problem God helped me with a while back.
We
had a window in our living room in which the glass was shattered and
needed to be replaced. A new
window was on order and we were keeping the area taped over with
plastic in the meantime. We had waited several weeks and finally the
new window came.
But when my husband went to put it in there was a
problem. Two little metal tabs that need to fit into slots at the side
weren't fitting right. I prayed for help. My husband called the store
where he ordered it and they told him to call the manufacturer, which
didn't solve anything. He was going to try to drill additional holes,
but I was concerned about doing that to this brand new window (what if
this didn't work and we needed to return it). I think he tried some
other things but nothing was helping. I continued to pray. Then he
remembered that he had saved some of the hardware from the old window
before he put it into the trash, among which were the two metal tabs.
He tried using those and it worked!
I'm pretty sure if I had seen
him save those
old tabs that I would have been upset that he was holding on to these
"useless" little things. But God knew how we would be needing them.
And I think the trash was picked up just that morning, so we wouldn't
have been able to retrieve them later. I am always so grateful and
amazed at how God provided when I think of this.