---MYSTERIOUS WAYS~~

~~~MORE THAN ENOUGH/ THE LORD PROVIDES~

--IT was a beautiful July evening, the sky still bright. I had all the windows down as I drove home from work, the smell of mowed grass drifting in on the breeze. I rolled to a stop at a red light. I found myself not wanting it to change. I didn't relish going home to an empty house.

My life had been in a tailspin ever since my wife told me that our marriage was over, that she'd met someone else. She filed for divorce soon after that. Two years later, I was still struggling.

The traffic light turned green. I eased my foot on the gas. Just as I drove through the intersection, a thought popped into my head, so clear it was almost a command= 'Pray for your wife.'

That's the problem, I thought. I don't have a wife. But the idea was so insistent. I pulled over to the side of the road. Sitting there in the car, with the engine ticking as it cooled and my hands clasped in front of me, I felt a little silly. But I was here, wasn't I? Might as well....

I didn't know what to say. So I just asked God to protect her and remind her that He loved her. "Amen," I concluded hastily, before getting back on the road.

The strange episode soon slipped my mind. Until the next year.

That's when I finally felt ready to date again. I made a profile on a dating website and was matched up with a woman named Nancy. She and I seemed to share a lot of the same values and interests. And she had a beautiful smile.

Nancy and I hit it off right away. In fact, we had more in common than I would have guessed from her profile. Her husband had left her the previous year. "It was a dark time for me," Nancy told me over dinner. "I didn't think I'd get through it."

"When was this?" I asked. But I already knew the answer.

"July of last year," she replied.

I nodded but didn't say anything. Only several dates later would I tell her about the compulsion to pray that had come over me that beautiful summer evening. 'Yes, this was Your doing, Lord?' Thank You. amen~

Nancy and I will soon celebrate our nineteenth wedding anniversary. Every day of these 19 years we have spent together, I have prayed for my wife--the wife God told me to pray for before we'd even met. Yes, God does work in mysterious ways, indeed. ["Thank You, Lord. You truly are enough for us, Your people. "]
--GUIDEPOSTS~--"Always Enough" / Casting Crowns / -<https://youtu.be/PnmBmXPFPEk>
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