Trusting When It Looks Frightening

I safely appropriated the rocking chair donated by a kind stranger who found it on Craig's list. (The sweet stranger is a supporter of Cities4Life, the pro-life sidewalk ministry to area abortion mills.) The beautiful young mama who chose life for her baby needed it to rock her little one to sleep. I was concerned as I have never used Craig's List, and wondered if a mass murderer was using rocking chairs as a ploy to lure gullible, old ladies like me to their terrible lairs where gruesome tortures awaited. It was with trepidation that I set out to pick it up, wondering what hell-hole I might be heading for. Pretty soon I was in the swankiest neighborhood along Lake Wylie, and pulled the car into the driveway of a waterfront property. If he was a mass murderer, he was a rich one.

The chair was beautiful, and had lovely white pads on it in excellent shape, no stains. The owner loaded the chair in my van, with no apparent desire to hack off my ears or cut out my liver. I brought it to "L", the new mama who needed it to rock her little, sweet baby to sleep.

"That's beautiful!" she cried, as I set it on her living room floor, "I looked on-line to see about chair pads...but this already has them!"
She sat down with a big smile, sweet baby in her arms, and began rocking.

 I would've liked to stay and chat but I couldn't stay long. I had to bring my van into the shop. During the rainstorm two days ago, the roof leaked exactly where the shop had supposedly fixed the leak 3 weeks before. When I pulled into the shop, the service man asked, "What is that terrible noise?" What noise? I had not heard the noise, though I told him we had run over a large box on the freeway a few days ago. He promised to check under the car to be sure the box had not caused damage.

When he called to update me on the car repairs, he asked if we had run over a mattress.
"I don't know," I told him, "It made a big noise but we didn't know what was in the box we hit." However, the service man knew what we had hit. There had been a mattress coil spring lodged in the wheel well....and a bunch of mattress fluff. We were lucky we had not crashed and died on the spot, having hit a mattress! And then, we were lucky that while driving the many days since then, the coil had not caused further damage to the car, specifically the brakes which it was lodged against. (That's if you believe in luck. I suspect "luck" had nothing to do with any of it.)

If the roof hadn't leaked, I would not have found all that catastrophe waiting to happen. To think I was annoyed that the roof that had been repaired was leaking. Now I am praising God for the leaky roof!

God is incredible, isn't He? "L" needed a rocking chair, and hoped for one with pads that she could ill afford. God sent us a stranger to buy her a rocking chair, and lo and behold, it came with pads. I was driving a ticking time bomb with all kinds of potential for devastating problems...and God sent a leaky roof to get me into the service center.

I am learning God sometimes sends problems and impossible needs so that He can demonstrate how much we can trust Him.
I texted "L" last night: "Have you been rocking in your new rocking chair?"
"All day," she texted back.
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Matthew 6:25 

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Psalm 9:10 

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Psalm 28:7 

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.