God's Perfect Plan

I LOVE God moments. You know, the moment you realize you are somewhere because that’s exactly where God wanted you to be at that point in time. It seems I’ve had lots of these little “coincidences” lately. The most amazing one happened Sunday afternoon.

Our normal Sunday routine is: church, lunch with Grandma and Mom, home to do some chores and a nap for Shawn, then Life Group.

This Sunday was a little different. Jacin didn’t get up in time for church so he stayed home. After church I didn’t go eat with my Mom and Grandma because I needed to finish up some grocery shopping from Saturday. But Shawn wanted to go so I let him. On my way to Sam’s my sister called and needed some “sister time” so instead of going straight to Sam’s I went to pick her up. Then she needed to take something by her boyfriend’s house and since he lives close to my house I went home to change out of my church clothes. Then we got hungry so we went and had lunch at this little restaurant we NEVER go to. I realized it was almost 2:00 and I wasn’t going to have time to go to Sam’s so I headed to Wal Mart to buy Shawn’s juice (it’s the ONLY place I’ve found the V8 Splash Mixed Berry blend that he will take with his medicine). As we were turning into the Wal Mart parking lot we saw a really bad car accident that had just happened…. It was my neighbor and her two kids. I pulled into the parking lot and walked over to see if I could help. They all three had really bad seat belt burns across their chests and her little girl (9 years) was already starting to bruise around her collar bone. The driver of the other car was briefly unconscious. Ambulances and police were called but my neighbor couldn’t get in touch with her husband. Luckily I was there to be able to tend to the kids so she could concentrate on the other driver. Once they were checked out by the ambulance and deemed okay to travel I was able to take them to get checked out by a doctor. When her husband arrived he still couldn’t transport them because he has a small two-seater truck. They were all three checked out by the doctors and are okay with the exception of some sore necks and backs and pretty good seatbelt burns.

Needless to say, even though my day didn’t go as I planned, it went the way of God’s plan. Just another reminder of how God has a perfect plan for us… even though my grocery shopping didn’t get done and my laundry didn’t get completely folded… God’s children were taken care of according to his perfect plan.
I am constantly amazed by God’s plan and all the little “coincidences” in life.

The sad statues

Every morning on the way to school we stop at a little bakery near Shawn’s pre-school. Shawn usually gets a donut (and one for Ethan too) or a Mexican pastry. The bakery recently added two new statues in the corner of the restaurant and every morning Shawn comments on how sad the statues look. The statue is actually called The Sleeping Mexican and this is what it looks like.

This is how our conversation went this morning:

Shawn: Mommy, those men be so sad every morning.
Mommy: Why do you think the statues are sad?
Shawn: Because they have to sit in the donut shop ALL day long and don’t get to eat any donuts! I’d be very sad too.
Mommy: (trying not to laugh) Yes, that would be very sad.