How God Provides

[WesleyF]

I came to the United States this January. I am living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in a shared apartment (5 people in all). For some days, I was using a mattress which belonged to another person in the apartment. However, about two weeks ago, he had to leave and he took his mattress along with him.

So I didn’t have any mattress to sleep on. Another room-mate gave me a comforter to sleep on. I began using it and I was also looking to buy a mattress. I searched a lot on the internet, but couldn’t find any that could fit my budget. I was willing to take any mattress that I could get (even a used one), provided it was affordable (under $60, i.e.) and in good condition.

I tried and tried, but in vain. I wasn’t getting good deals. There were some offers on craigslist for free mattresses, but as is the case which such offers, those mattresses were taken before I could get them.

So I just stopped thinking about the mattress and began focussing on my studies and homework. I thought, “Well, when I get time, I will start thinking about the mattress. I just don’t have time right now.”

Today, myself and my friend decided to go to the laundromat. So we took the clothes and began walking towards the laundromat. And then, we saw two mattresses lying beside the road! Good mattresses! I guess someone over there was vacating his / her house and was just throwing out all the stuff that he / she didn’t need. So I asked the men who were taking the stuff out whether I could take the mattresses. They allowed me. And so I got not one, but two mattresses!!! One of them was strong and firm, so I placed it on the floor in my room and then I placed the softer one on top. Now I can sleep peacefully!

God provides!!! Praise be to God!

 

[aspirant]

Thanks be to God!

 

[littlequestion]

Exactly the same thing happened to me not long ago. I was using an air mattress while paying the expenses of having moved, and it started to leak. Then someone threw out theirs as they were leaving this building.

And so my next thing was a room divider as well as working on an art project that seemed to need some kind of special back-ground for a relief sculpture, but I didn’t know what, so I pushed the problem aside and after being tempted to spend money on an expensive bookcase, I prayed for strength against temptations. These two needs were not connected in my mind. But then that week a neighbor put some old bamboo furniture out for pick-up and I looked at it, and with just a little work, the back of the bamboo couch became the absolutely perfect back-drop for my art project.

I was looking around my small apartment for wall space so I could work on it some more, and saw that it is in fact exactly the right size for the divider. Now it looks like I really planned this out, but it was all handed to me without any effort on my part. God is so good!