Hug, Kisses and Mini Miracles  

There was a period in my life when I was pretty down on my luck financially.  It seemed that no matter what I did or how hard I tried, I couldn’t make a dime.  All of my best efforts seem to be futile. If I had to put a label on this period, I would definitely have to say that I had hit “Rock Bottom”.  It was strictly by God’s grace, and through the help of my family and friends that we managed to keep food on our table, gas in the car and all of the utilities on.  For me, it was extremely painful and stressful to have to ask for help.  It was a huge blow to my pride and to my ego.  Everyday I would ride this roller coaster of emotions.  I was constantly worrying about how I was going to pay the next bill. During this time, I found myself constantly asking God where He was in all of this and why He was not providing for me.

But it was at this time that a friend of mine offered to take me out to dinner.  During the course of feeding me dinner, she also fed me some words of wisdom.  I was blabbering on and on complaining about how God wasn’t there for me.  But I also knew deep down that I was exactly in the place in my life that I was supposed to be.  Exactly in the place God wanted me to be in my life at that moment.  And I knew this because it was God Himself whom had placed me there.  “So then, if that was true, why was He not providing for me” I asked her?  I will never forget what she said to me. She said, “Cherie what is it exactly that God is not providing for you?  You’ve got a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on your table.  All of your utilities have been paid.  He is providing for you”, maybe not in the way that you are accustomed to, but make no mistake about it, He is providing for you.”  And it was at that very moment, that I first felt God blowing me a kiss.

It was then that I realized that she was right. God was providing for me, it just wasn’t in the way that I expected that He would.  I had just accepted a new job, a job that I thought God had led me to.  This was a job that entailed many risks, especially financial risks.  But I thought that since God had placed me here in this job and in this position that surely He would provide for me.  I had all of these visions of how God was just going to cover me with His supernatural favor and blessings.  I think that I thought that God was just going to magically feed me these miraculous deals.  All I would have to do is breathe on them and they would close. For a minute there, I think that I mistook God for the Great Houdini or maybe even my own personal Santa Clause.  But thanks to my friend,  armed with her wise insight and  her bold words, she was able to slap me and wake me up,  out of my dream state in  La La land.  I started to really pay attention to all of the ways that God was providing for me, and showing me His love and favor.  It was also at this time that I saw how each and everyday God shows us how much He loves each of us on a very personal and individually level.  He shows His love for us each very differently, and intimately. Just like an attentive lover, He woos us.  He knows our likes and dislikes.  He knows the events which will effect us and touch us deep down inside, like no one else will ever know.  He knows what will move and stir us on the inside.  He knows exactly what our specific triggers are and what circumstances will propel us to change and to stimulate growth within us.

Sometimes He shows His love for us in an obvious way, like when you receive that promotion or raise that you’ve been praying for.  I call those types of gestures, ”Hugs from God”.   These are the moments that make me feel as though God is putting His big, strong arms around me, squeezing me tight and making me feel all warm inside, with a feeling of security like a grandparent gives you.  This is God’s way of telling me how proud He is of me and giving me a little gift to express His pride in me.

 Sometimes God will do things for us that are small and sweet, like a tiny piece of candy that someone might leave on your pillow in morning. If you are rushing about too quickly getting ready for your day, and not paying attention to your surroundings, you might just miss it. This type of gesture from God may also be as little as going to a crowed mall and getting there just in time to snag a prime parking spot, just as someone is pulling out of it.  These are not exactly huge gestures,   but they are God’s way of showing you that someone out there in the universe loves you and is thinking about you today.  I call those events kisses from God, because I can just see Him, ever so gently, blowing soft, sweet little kisses from heaven.  And that makes me think of chocolate, candy kisses. 

And thirdly, on occasion, God will show you some “Ole School Love”.  That’s the type of love he showed for His disciples back in biblical days.  You will easily recognize it when God releases this type of love for you in your life, because it’s unexplainable to everyone around you.   It may not even make sense to you.  These are the type of stories that you tell people, but you really don’t want to tell them, because you just know that while you’re telling them the story, they’re thinking that you are exaggerating or that you are just flat out lying.  The type of story you start off by saying, “Your not gonna believe this but…”  And you know deep down inside, immediately upon its occurrence, that this thing, this event that has just taken place, was a special gift from God to you.  Because only God could have orchestrated a coo this amazing.  Only God could have pulled this off so perfectly, with such attention to detail and synchronicity.  I call these modern day wonders “Mini Miracles”.  To the person sitting on the outside of our lives looking in, these events may seem small, trivial even.  But to us, we know that God stepped in and intervened at just the right moment to help us move through whatever we had been praying, maybe even begging and pleading for Him to help us through. This to me is nothing short of miraculous.

God has given me evidence of His love for me by performing these mini miracles on my behave more times than I can count.  Now that I am able to recognize these events, if I look back on my life there were probably hundreds of times God performed these incredible fetes in my life.  One such fete happened to me when I was going through that period of financial lack that I had spoken about previously.

It was a few weeks after I had that dinner with my friend, and I had this marvelous epiphany about how God shows His affection to us in to fit our personalities and situations.  I was no longer feeling down, depressed and consumed with self pity, because I was now able to appreciate and see how God had been paying close, personal attention to my life all along.  I was able to recognize how He was consistently blessing me everyday.  God was still blessing me, even in the midst of going through this extremely tough phase of my life.  I was indeed grateful that through God’s provision, we still had a roof over our heads, along with all the creature comforts of home.  But unfortunately, after paying all of these bills, I didn’t have enough money to pay the cable TV bill.  I know it’s not exactly a necessity, but it did make life just a little bit more pleasant for us, especially in times like these. 

The night previous to the cable disconnection date, I prayed that God would, somehow, someway keep the cable on for me and my family.  I told God, “I don’t know how you will do it, because I won’t have the money to pay this bill in the little time that I have left.  And the cable company has refused to work with me on delaying the cut off or take a smaller payment, so I don’t have a solution. But I know that all things are possible with you, and I know that you do have a solution and can make a way to keep our cable on.”  After that I let it go.  To me, this matter was far too little that God should concern Himself or be anyplace on His list of priorities.  After all we were only talking about our ability to watch television; this was by no means a matter of life or death.  So I had peace with the fact that tomorrow morning, we would not be able to watch TV.  In these modern times, remember, you can’t just watch regular TV without some sort of cable or satellite contraption. 

The next day, I went about my business as usual.  I didn’t even attempt to turn the TV on, but my daughter came home from school and without missing a beat, she threw her books down and headed straight for the television.  To my surprise, it was working, every single channel was there.  I looked online at my bill, and sure enough, it was still past due.  Darn, no secret admire had paid it for me.  So happy but bewildered, I called the cable company.  And after giving the annoying automated computer my account number, it immediately announced that it was sorry that I had no service, and in order to restore it I would need to pay the current as well as the past due amount.  After going through many prompts, I was finally able to reach a live person, whom also immediately apologized that my service had been disconnected and offered me the same deal as the computer did to have it restored.  Only I would now have to pay an additional fee because I had now incurred a disconnect fee.   I was still feeling very confused, because my daughter and I were sitting here watching her favorite after school show on our disconnected television,  only now, not only was I confused about that, I had to speak to a supervisor, in order to request that they remove the disconnect fee that had been placed on my account because no disconnection had ever taken place.

Again, I was greeted by the supervisor, who extended her apologies that my cable was disconnected, and again she gave the exact same remedy as the others before her, in order to get it restored.  Once again, I explained to her that I still had cable and that she could remove the disconnection fee and allow me to pay a lesser amount in a couple days to keep my service going.  After some time and convincing on my part, she was able to work out a way for me to pay for my service at a lesser rate with a date extension.  She even agreed to remove the disconnection fee, but only as a service to me, because she was absolutely positive that I must be mistaken, and I could not possibly have any cable service.  She went on to say that all of their computers could not possibly be wrong, and that she was more than certain that our service had absolutely been disconnected.  And unfortunately would not be restored until we were able to make our payment in a few days.  So finally I just let it go.  And it was at that moment that the light in my brain finally came on.   I hit my forehead with the palm of my hand and said “duh…don’t you get what just happened?  God just hooked you up, He answered your prayer, and He just granted you a mini miracle. It took me a minute to realize that I had gotten what I wanted all around.  I was able to make payment arrangements that I could live with, the disconnection fee had been removed, and somehow, I don’t know how, God made a way to keep my cable from ever being disconnected at all, even though I wouldn’t be able to pay the bill for a few more days.

Like I said, to someone looking at this from the outside of this situation, they may be thinking, “What was the miracle?  It’s not like God parted the Red Sea for her or anything.”  But when you’ve been struggling through a really hard time in your life, and it seems like if just one more thing happens, I think I’m going to loose it.  It’s the little things that can keep you going, a kind word of encouragement from a friend, someone picking up your check unexpectedly at dinner, or an unexplainable fluke at the cable company. 

No, until this day, I can’t explain what happened.  And apparently, neither can the cable company.  I just accept it as a token of affection, a gift from above.  I accepted it gladly because that’s what you’re supposed to do when someone gives you a gift, graciously accept it.   And that is exactly what I did. I also knew down deep in my heart that this was God’s way of reaching out to show me His love and favor, in order to help me and my family to get through this really hard time.  This was God’s way of performing a mini miracle, just for me.

That day God made me feel extremely special.  With all the pressing matters on God’s agenda, He took time to tend to my frivolous desires.  And yes, it made me feel special, that the maker of the universe would do this for me.  But as special as I felt, I know that I am not the only one that God loves in this manner.  He loves us all the same, but somehow has this unique way to show each of us how special we are to Him.  He loves each of us in a way that is tailored made to meet our specific personality traits desires.

God’s ability to do this for us is truly astonishing to me.   And I would love to hear and share your stories with others as well.  Write back and tell everyone how God has either blown you a kiss, given you a hug or granted you your own personal mini miracle.  You can give me your full name and story or remain completely anonymous if you choose.  Don’t miss your chance to give hope to others by sharing with them your stories of inspiration and joy.  This is your chance to give back some of the love that God has shown to you.

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