Eating My Words

Soooooooo, I know I said that I was going to stop blogging/posting, but I thought more about it (the last post was a little spur of the moment) and I've decided that I will continue to post on here as long as I see fitting. This is my telling amendment: I do exercise the authority of this blog, so I can choose what I want to do with it. Also, I have a story I'd like to share for the resurrection of The Think Basket.

I was heading to my 3 pm Religious Studies class and I had with me sixty-five cents, with which I was going to purchase a can of cola (I was aiming for a cherry coke). I went to the vending machines just around the corner from my class room and pulled out my change: two quarters, a nickel, and a dime. Now, it's important to note that there is a machine that vends $1.25 sodas, and another across the way for the sixty-five cent colas. I took my change and mistakingly went to the $1.25 machine, and proceeded to enter my change, unaware of my error. I placed the first quarter in, and it was returned in the change cubby at the bottom of the machine. I checked the quarter and made sure it wasn't a fake, and placed it a second time into the machine. I heard something like the falling of multiple coins this time, and when I looked into the return I spied two quarters! Sweet, I thought, so I grabbed them. That's when I realized that I was at the wrong machine. I felt so silly; luckily no one was behind me.

I walked to the sixty-five cent machine and was surprised to find out that they raised the price on this machine, and maybe campus-wide, to seventy-five cents. And what do you know? Here I am, left my house with sixty-five cents, and came to the machine with ninety cents! Some people might think this is a stretch, but to me this demonstrates God's abundance. I had fifteen cents left over from buying a cola that I was really ten cents short of!

I quite enjoyed that cherry coke, and it was sweet to see God's favor in something like that. I was going to be really bummed if I didn't get something to drink, because although I'm not dependent on high fructose corn syrup it definitely makes power hours go faster when I have something to consume. And on top of that, it's been the first day I can actually skate outside in a while--it was absolutely gorgeous out today. So on top of everything Christ did on the cross for me, this day has been quite excellent. I'm going with my friend Ace to an Einstein-inspired poetry reading later tonight, so I'm looking forward to that as well. What has God done for you lately?