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Topic: Inspirational 07/30/10 Story of God's Love
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Date: Jul 29 11:00PM -0400
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Story of God's Love
Author: Joan Wester Anderson
Joan@JoanWAnderson.com
Liz Cobos had separated from her husband. She was emotionally devastated,
and the reality of keeping her two preschool daughters fed and cared for had
all but shattered her spirit. She believed in God, but where was He? She
felt so alone… Reluctantly, she decided to file for financial aid, until she
could find a job.
However, the paperwork would take some time, and a few days later, Liz
realized that she had no money, and no food in the cupboards. She checked
her purse and pockets just in case, but there was no money anywhere, no way
to buy even a small bag of groceries. "I sent the girls next door because I
knew my nice neighbor would feed them," she recalls. "Then I sat on the
couch and cried." God, please, just a little help ... just enough to buy
some groceries for the next week… As Liz wept, five-year-old Crystal came
back into the apartment. "Mommy, what's the matter?" she asked.
Liz didn't want Crystal to see her crying. "Nothing, honey. Why don't you go
outside and do something?"
"Like what?" Crystal persisted.
"Oh…" Liz wiped her eyes. "Why don't you take out the garbage? That would be
a big help."
"Okay!" Crystal took the garbage bag and headed out the door and down to the
apartment complex dumpsters. A moment later, she was back. "Mommy, can I
keep this plastic egg that I found in the dump? I can put my Barbie doll
clothes in it."
"No, honey," Liz murmured absently. "You're not supposed to bring things in
from the garbage. It might be dirty…"
"It's not, Mommy. Please? I'll keep the egg and you can keep the money in
it."
Liz's heart seemed to stop. "What money?"
"Here," Crystal said, and she pulled four twenty dollar bills out of the
egg. Liz stared at the bills. The dumpsters were huge—there was no possibly
way she could find the owner of those bills. Did God mean them for her?
Hadn't she asked? "I will never leave you nor forsake you…" The comforting
words from the Bible washed over her, and she understood.
"The money bought us groceries until my aid came through," Liz says. "I
found a job, and things are much better today, but I've never forgotten that
moment, and the reassurance it brought me." It wasn't so much the money
itself, she says, but the certainty that God was near and caring for her,
answering her prayer in His own way, in His own time. "Nothing is impossible
with Him."
Copyrighted 2002 by Joan Wester Anderson. For more stories of God's love,
check the website at: http://joanwanderson.com.
"Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have
storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than
the fowls?" –Luke 12:24
"Kyk na die kraaie, want hulle saai nie en hulle maai nie; hulle het geen
voorraadkamer of skuur nie, en tog voed God hulle. Hoeveel meer is julle nie
werd as die voëls nie!" -Luke 12:24
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