Do you ever notice God in the little things?  Do you recognize when He has turned a sour situation to good?  A few days ago I purchased several items at Walgreen’s one of which was a package of sewing needles.  They were cheap; three dollars max but I had been meaning to get some for a while so I was somewhat dismayed to find them missing after everything had been unpacked.  Oh well, they’ll turn up.  The children drew my attention to something else and I promptly forgot about them.  Skip to Wednesday - trash day.  We live a ways back from the road so our trash is picked up in two steps.  First the motorcycle man comes and hauls it up to the main road then two or three hours later the trash truck comes by to take it away for good.  In that short window between the two steps our dog has taken to looking for leftovers in the bags.  This Wednesday Sister and I walked to the mailbox to put in some mail and discovered that she (the dog) had been at it again.  Remarkably only one bag had been touched, still; there was trash everywhere.  I walked back down the drive to get a bag, found some boxes that needed to go out too and walked back up the drive to pick up the mess.  A few minutes later only one stray paper was left.  I picked it up and quickly realized it wasn’t a paper at all.  It was instead the missing needle packet, completely intact.

Now I’m not saying that God caused our dog to go digging in the trash but it seems quite coincidental that with six bags to choose from she picked the one with the needles.  Also, if I hadn’t come back for a new bag I wouldn’t have remembered to take out the boxes.  On top of all that, four trips along our driveway is actually pretty good exercise.

Maybe you think all of this a bit Pollyana-ish.  Maybe it is.  I prefer to think it’s God in the everyday… in the little things.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose” (Rom. 8:28).