God’s Provisions

by | Apr 27, 2019 | Poem, Provision

I bought a house in a small town near my two sisters that needed some fixing up. The roof leaked in one room and then another, and another. Bats started staying in the attic and sometimes would get into the house. One night about 1 a.m. I woke up with the realization that there was a bat flying above me. I covered my head with the blankets, but what was I going to do?

My sister who lived across the road was out of town cleaning and fixing up a house for her sick brother-in-law who was staying with them until the house could be readied for him. I called her husband and asked him if he would come over and open up the bedroom door so the bat could fly out of my bedroom. He said “NO!” Somebody might see that his wife wasn’t there because their car was gone and they would think he was sneaking over to my house to be with me! You know when you’ve got a bat flying over your head you aren’t thinking about the neighbors gossiping. Trust me!

I took a blanket, put it over my head, crawled to the door, and got it opened. The bat flew out of the room, and eventually I got it out of the house.

One day I looked on the internet to try to find a way to get rid of the bats. I found a sight that said that there was a little device that would make a high pitched sound that they could hear but you couldn’t, and it would get rid of the bats. It was too expensive for my income so that didn’t help.

Later, I remembered that a friend had given me a small device, about a year before, that she used to get rid of spiders in her basement. It dawned on me that maybe I could use it to get rid of the bats! I plugged it in that afternoon. Then, about dusk I heard this commotion going on out in the other part of the house. I can only imagine that it was the bats leaving because I can’t remember ever seeing another bat after that. Isn’t God good!!! He knew way back a year before, that I would need that device to get rid of the bats. It encourages me to know that He knows the future and will provide for me. He even provided for me to move to a wonderful little (dry) apartment complex in a nearby town where I could have a “Mission Field.”

“GOD’S PROVISIONS”

If you could but know what tomorrow would bring,
Would you do what you’re doing or change anything?
The future is a mystery to all of us here,
But, if our lives are surrendered to God we have nothing to fear.

Norma Wellman butterflyblue7@frontier.com

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