Disposable Plates & God's Perfect Timing

There's something about Mike and I that you should know. We can't let a good bargain pass us by. Sometimes even when we don't need the stuff, we buy it because well, it's a good bargain. In THAT aspect, we're really trying to stop. It's a bad habit and spending of unnecessary money.

Well, found a bargain Mike did. He'd bought a gigantic plastic bag of disposable plates recently for what he thought was a good bargain. He bought them, intending to donate them for everyone's use on Charismatic Meeting nights (we usually have fellowship / makan after our meetings).

The humble disposable plate

He was so excited to show me his newly bought stash in the car. I didn't think much about it, except to tell him I thought they were bigger than what we usually use and to ask him if he was sure they needed plates because it would be very troublesome if they didn't cos I think someone was usually in charge of lugging the plates back and forth (home to church and vice versa) every week. Oh how negative a wife I can be! I couldn't just pat him on his back and praise him for buying disposable plates! LOL.

Then last Monday, I was down with the flu and Mike had to go for Charis meeting without me (hah! That took some pushing but he did! I'm so proud of him). He told me that before the meeting started, he was talking to someone when he realised he had forgotten to take the plates out from the car. It seems, they were glad the Lord had answered their prayers and were happy to see his plates because that very night.....they had run out of plates.

You may think this isn't a big deal but I've never known them to run out of plates! We always have plates! I thought it was just amazing how the Lord used Mike to provide even without him knowing it. You can call it pure coincidence, I call it God's perfect timing!