Lavishly Loved

Twice a year, I organize a dog food drive for Hollow Creek Farm. (HCF) They are the rescue organization that helped me years ago to rehabilitate my then vicious dog. I will always be indebted to them, so this is my effort to pay them back. Yesterday morning, the day of the drive, I went on a run. I usually do on my dog food drive mornings, to see the lovely yellow dog food bags dotting the street by the generous neighbor's mailboxes. There was only one lovely yellow bag dotting the street! Oh no!

I wrote to HCF and told them we would be driving the dog food over after lunch, but it wasn't looking promising. "Start praying," I advised. 11:00 pick up time arrived and I drove down my first street. Only the one bag. Then I turned down a cul-de-sac. Two bags! Then down another cul-de-sac. No bags. I was growing dispirited. My husband and I had been discussing how donations have been slowly decreasing. I wondered if it was worth the cost of the gas! (They are over an hour away from us.)

The next street, there were several bags alongside mailboxes. And at every street, like colorful beacons of generosity and kindness, yellow bags sparkled every few houses. It was probably the largest donation ever from our neighborhood! The car was filled to the brim.

I wrote to HCF, and sent the photo of the car loaded with dog food. "You must have prayed hard."

God doesn't always send dog food when you need it. He doesn't always reward lack of faith, and loss of hope. But when He does, He often does so abundantly. How lavishly He loves us. Why do I so continually battle doubt?
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Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Psalm 23:5 

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Psalm 65:11 

You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.