The Little Things

I remember once I was with my favorite cousin Janelle and my sister Chelse’. This was before I had children so I was just out for no good reason.  I think my sister had met some guy that worked at a porn video shop and we’d gone out to his job so she could cake* with him.  After we’d surveyed the fare of the shop, which had more types of porn than I’d ever known possible, Janelle and I were bored and starving for food so we left. We spotted a cheap fast food restaurant nearby and started checking our pockets to see how much money we had to eat with.  I think between the two of us we had not-even two dollars.  Even we had to laugh at ourselves for being two grown, employed women with less than two dollars between us.  But as we walked on, we lucked up some spilled change on the ground.  We even found a couple of quarters I think. By the time we got to Checkers our money had built up to something like $2.81!  For those of you that don’t know, Checkers is like Rally’s.  They have greasy, heavily seasoned fries, and hamburgers with artery-loving toppings like bacon, onion rings and BBQ sauce. Anyway, we must have studied that menu for a full 10 minutes trying to finagle some way for us to both eat on our two dollars.  Finally, we ordered some kind of $.99 special and ended up with two tiny burgers and one fry to split.  And wouldn’t you know it-- the total was down to the penny our $2.81.  Now some can easily write this off as a coincidence, but true believers in the Creator know that there is no such thing as coincidence.  Those quarters we ‘lucked up’ on in the parking lot made it possible to satisfy both our hungry bellies that day. Our gratitude when we found those quarters, and when we ate that food, paved the way for more bountiful blessings in the future.  God is always doing ‘little things’ for us like that.  Watch closely and you’ll see. Appreciate greatly those little things and be marveled at the big things God will do because you appreciate the small.  


*Cake means to spend romantic time with someone via text, email, or in-person.