You're It!

Isn't it a good feeling to the core when you realize that God used you in a special place in time to assist another human being in some way? It's also a great feeling when you are in a state of distress and another person has been placed in your path to direct you, rescue you, or simply encourage you.

Sure, we could all say "circumstantial". Let's say random opportunities to serve and be served are random circumstances--I am still glad they happen. Personally, I do not believe these circumstances to be "coincidental". I believe our paths are Directed when we Yield to Direction. I also believe the more we yield, the more interesting, rewarding, and comical our lives become.

Some fun examples:

I am used for someone else:

One day I was standing behind an elderly woman check out at the Dollar Store. She came up $4 short. I have been there and it is embarrassing. It just happened I had $4 extra that day. She started putting her stuff back. No way! "I've got it." She just looked at me surprised, and said, "no, no." I said, "yes, yes. My momma taught me to never turn away someones opportunity to help. You don't want to take my blessing, do you?" Now, I had not planned to do that, but I was prepared with $4 extra dollars. The timing, when you think about it is totally awesome. I could have chosen a different store, or been somewhere else in the store. But, thank God--I was in the right place at the right time.

Someone else is used for my benefit:
I still don't know how this happened. I had been running errands in Bay St. Louis. A couple of miles away I get a phone call. The caller asked my name and said, are you missing a black wallet?
"I don't know, let me check." Sure enough my wallet with credit cards and ID was missing. These people were vacationers who just happened to be driving down the highway and noticed my small black wallet, then noticed the credit cards and ID's scattered down the highway. I still do not know how they did it safely, but they gathered all and returned to me. Talk about these folks being in the right place at the right time! I was Providentially impressed!

More later. Please share some of your Providential Tales.