My husband and I recently inspired by Thomas Dubay’s “Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Finding Spiritual Life” decided to downsize our home by buying a much smaller condo. Things are a little tight as we ready our house for the market and we finance the other home.
I don’t know about you, but when things are tight the temptation to decrease donations is always present. Last week I was so tempted to not put that check in the church basket. But the thought crossed my mind: “You cannot be more generous than God.” My fear was that there wouldn’t be enough to cover our bills. But going on faith in what we pray every single morning in the Divine Office, I decided to trust that God would indeed provide.
So yesterday when I went to my mail box I noticed an envelope that looked like there was money inside. When opened it was a surprise $1,000 check, with the “we are so sorry we didn’t send this money to you earlier” note. The money was for some service my husband had done awhile back. We hadn’t realized there was money involved. The job was done months ago and the check was indeed late. But just in time according to God’s Divine Plan.
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