August 6, 2011

• It’s The Little Things

  We just got back from a wonderful visit home with family and friends, as well as our third (and final!) wedding reception/celebration.  I’m in no rush to make the 25 hour drive again, but it was so nice to have those few days at home!

  I would spend time detailing the reception, but my mom has done a wonderful job blogging pictures about it – so you should go see her page!

  We arrived home to a very intense reminder that God is a God of the little things:

  Our apartment complex has a LOT of parking, and there are no assigned parking lots per apartment.  There are about 3 spots per apartment, so it is pretty much guaranteed that there will be enough parking somewhere in the vicinity of your building.  We have a row of spaces right outside our door that we try to park in, but there is a never a guarantee that those will be available.
  Last week on the day that we were leaving, we were blessed with the ability to park both our regular cars plus the rental car right by our door which made loading everything much easier.  We also felt safer leaving our cars right by our door while we were gone for 8 days.  Our rent is due by the 5th of every month, and since we were arriving back so late on the 4th, we went ahead and paid our rent a week early, informing the main office that we were doing so because we would be out of town.

  When we came home last on Thursday night, we were surprised to find the entire parking lot, EXCEPT for the row of spaces by our building, completely blocked off due to new paving.  We found a note attached to our door (they were on all doors) when we got in.  It was a notice (from the day before) that the parking lots would be paved over the next two days and that all cars in the first area needed to be moved by 8:30 am on Thursday morning, or they would be towed at the owner’s expense.  The row that our cars were in were scheduled for the next day and needed to be moved by 8:30 am on Friday morning.  I was suddenly overwhelmed by the way that God had worked everything out way before we even knew something needed to be worked out.  He allowed us to get those three spaces by our apartment, otherwise we never would have thought to move our cars to that particular spot.  If we had parked even one row over, our cars would have been towed at our expense.  If we had stayed in Virginia one extra day, or even had car trouble on the way home and missed being able to move our cars before Friday morning, our cars would have been towed at our expense.  It seems like such a little thing, a simple matter of parking, but God’s sovereignty permeates even the little things.  We have all our cars safe and sound and a nice new paved parking lot to park them on. 

  Be encouraged by this, as I was, that the God who is in control of something seemingly as minor as this, is also in control of the little AND big things in your life.

   

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