Wow!!

I am again reminded of how perfect Gods timing is. No matter how much we plan and schedule we really aren't in control.
I was reminded of this on Saturday. See we are still raising money for our trip to Zambia in July. We planned a garage sale for Feb 7th in hopes to bring in some more money. We announced it at church and plenty of families contributed to cleaning out their closets to help us out. So we collected for a few weeks and then we prepared for Feb 7th by sorting and arranging things. Well, we were rained out on the 7th and then the 14th. Well during the 2 week postponement, more people were able to bring in their donations for the garage sale. So we again prepare for another Sat., yesterday, and are so grateful that we will finally have good weather.
Well Michaela and I arrive at our pastors house to set everything up and it appears that the donations have doubled!! Can you believe it?
So we had to quickly sort and get things out so that Kim could put out the signs....it was so funny when so did. With in minutes, I am serious, like someone let flood gates open, people started rushing the sale!! In fact, we were still setting up. You garge sale hunters are a little bit crazy....haha..I'm joking but seriously....You get up early!
There was a time when Michaela told me to look back, because I was at the bottom of the driveway taking everyones money,to see the sea of people. I am not kidding we were so unbelievably out numbered. There could've been a hostile take over. There must have been 50 people there at one time! There was only 4 of us at most.
Anyhow, it proved to be extremely successful!! I have no idea what we sold to raise the money we did but we did.
Gods timing is so perfect!! We were able to raise $894!!! God is so good!! We just needed to have the faith to see it through. We were getting a little discouraged, well a lot to be honest. We were like, "Gosh are we doing what we are supposed to do?" It sure didn't seem like it. Every time we wanted to do something simple, like a garage sale, we were rained out. Not to mention that it would be sunny all week to only rain on SAT!!
It just proves to me that it is all in Gods timing!! His timing is not ours. We are grateful to not be in control.
Hebrews 11:1 says....Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Thanks for being in control because we would mess it up every time.
~~L~~