Thanksgiving Timing
When it comes to timing I don’t think things happen just because. We may see God’s timing in our lives as perfect one moment, random the next, and then all together horrible another time. The truth is that God’s timing, irrelevant to how we may perceive it, is perfect. Case in point is my own Thanksgiving this year. I didn’t think it was great timing on God’s part for my fridge to go out. He thought otherwise. Should be noted here that, yes, I do think that even those little things, like an appliance death, God’s aware of.
In the A.M. of Thanksgiving morning, right after midnight, Rainy woke me up from a good slumber to tell me our fridge wasn’t working. Annoyed, but with little other choice, I got up. For the next hour with my wife, our sister, and her boyfriend, I tried to unbreak the fridge. Different sockets, the breaker, toolbox of goodies, to YouTube and Google. All came to prove one thing, yes, our fridge had finally died. There were some signs this was coming, and it had served us well for over ten years, but the timing seemed a bit . . . on the mark. Was this bad timing; at the time I thought so.
Appliances die, this is an unfortunate truth in our broken world. My fridge, along with all mechanical things, have a lifespan. Sometimes you can help keep them running with a repair or two (I’m all about that.) In the end though, they die. Once we’re in Heaven we’ll likely not be worried about what warranty plan will actually last long enough. My guess is we’ll be good, but until then we have to do the best we can with what we have. Our fridge was gone, and now we had to get moving on how to remedy the situation.
Timing, well, it was 1am on Thanksgiving Day, and nothing was open except a store down the road for ice. Timing, the temperature had just dropped from the warmer 70s to the 50s in our area. Idea, we got a large plastic bin from our storage shed outback, filled it with ice, and placed most of our valuables inside it on our front porch in the cold weather. I kid you not, on day three, when our new fridge had arrived, there was still some ice in that tub on our porch.
We were able to find a new fridge online to order, and this, like the cool weather, turned out to be some good timing. After Thanksgiving in America and maybe other countries as well, we have what’s called Black Friday. It’s become a tradition of a day where people go out in the dark of morning on a Friday and go find all the best sales. You can also dodge all that by just going online, which I did. We found a new fridge that usually sold for $900; we got it for $600 including taxes and next day delivery. Timing, it would seem, was rather good for us.
Timing, God’s timing, can be interesting. Would I rather my fridge last another ten years, of course! But, like mentioned above, this is a broken world, and things break. Jesus loves us, but our appliances are still just manmade machines with limited life spans. So, after all this, I have changed my mind on the timing, it was rather good timing.
Timing:
Thanksgiving morning was funny and we were all in good spirits even though we were stuck dismantling and removing what used to be our fridge.
We have an interesting story to help this Thanksgiving live on a little more for all of us. I like stories, so I count this as a good thing.
Due to the change in weather and some creative thinking our food lasted.
Thanks to going on the day before massive sales, we got a brand-new fridge for several hundred dollars less than we would have had another time.
God’s timing is perfect by his timing and not ours. Though, if you look around with some faith and the knowledge that Jesus works in love, you can sometimes spot his hand in things. I do want to note that this example of timing is light hearted and somewhat silly compared to some times where hearts break and tragedy tries to sink us into the deep. We, in this broken world, suffer and delight in God’s timing on the good and the bad. It is the world we live in, and I can speak of both with personal experience.
I can’t tell you why my grandson died after a few months of life. I have to trust in God. I can’t tell you how God kept me and my children housed, fed, and the bills paid with seven years of single parenting on a daycare employee’s check, but he did. Faith and trust in God is essential to wisdom, to life, and to surviving those harder times. Thankfully this Thanksgiving was more interesting timing with light inconvenience that turned into laughter and a good story with a new fridge. Thank you, Lord. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, and may Jesus be there with you to bless the meal for many more Thanksgivings.
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