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Date: August 7, 2010

Books & DVDs Kingdom Chums by SQuire Rushnell Read Our Letter To Parents When God Winks on New Beginnings by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $15.98 When God Winks by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $16.00 When God Winks on Love by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $14.98 When God Winks at You by SQuire Rushnell Sale Price: $17.99

I’ll never forget Clifford, nor the miracle God provided to teach me of His daily, loving care for each of us.

It was a typical payday – calculating my stretched to the limit budget, paying my bills, shopping for two weeks worth of groceries and tucking away the last few dollars in a coffee can for a rainy day.

All I had left in my refrigerator was a can of tuna, two slices of bread and an over-ripe avocado. As I climbed the stairs to my apartment with two bags of food that I desperately needed, I felt the Holy Spirit prompt me: “Give Clifford your groceries.”

Surely, I didn’t hear that right. If I gave him my food for the next two weeks, I would have next to nothing to eat. I unlocked my door and put the bags on my kitchen table. Again, I heard the Lord tell me, “Give Clifford your groceries.”

Poor Clifford certainly needed them. He had recently suffered a spinal injury while playing volley ball at church with a bunch of us. His painful, slow recovery prevented him from returning to work as a dishwasher and his bank account was almost dry So, I gathered the bags into my arms and dropped them off at his apartment, three doors down from mine.

Afterwards, I sat on my sofa and wryly thought, “Oh, well…if I get hungry later in the week, I can always invite myself to dinner at my neighbor’s!”

Just then, I had a feeling I should go and check my mail. I wasn’t expecting anything. Really, all I ever got was bills and I had just paid those. Still, I felt an urgency to go downstairs to check my box.

To my surprise, I had two letters waiting for me. One letter was from my Aunt Marie, whom I hadn’t heard from in years. She wrote that she wasn’t sure if my birthday was that month, or two months down the road but she wanted to send me a small check, so I could buy myself a little treat.

The other piece of mail was a birthday card from my grandmother. She said, “I know it is only January and your birthday is not until March but I had a feeling I should send you this check early. Happy birthday!”

Can you believe it? The amount of the two birthday checks were equal to what I spent on the groceries I had just given Clifford!

Coincidence? I don’t think so...

Irene