God is Everywhere...Even in the Spinach!

from Elliott
Last Friday the OK Grocer in town said they would like to buy 50 bunches of spinach. More than twice as much as any other time we have sold to them. We were excited! I was not sure we had that many leaves ready to harvest. It is a bit of a grey area as to what constitutes 'a bunch'. I had hoped to get them to say a certain number of leaves but it was a measurement of the thumb and forefinger left open by about 45 degrees. So, you are not quite sure either - neither was I.

I requested our garden staff to harvest all the mature leaves not knowing how many that would be and how many bunches that would produce. They put them loose in boxes and I carried them to the training room where I could spread them out and create the bunches using that less than scientific finger measurement. The number of loose leaves was amazing and completed filled 5 large boxes and the tops of two large tables.

I measured out the bunches and tied 'elastics' (rubber bands) around them and stacked them. It seemed like the piles of leaves would never end! I was growing concerned that we would have way too many and they would go to waste. An hour later they we are bunched and I started putting them in boxes to transport to the OK.

10 bunches, 20, 30, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50. The last one in the box was 50, exactly 50! No more, no less. Exactly what was needed. Only God could know what was in the garden and what was required. It seems like that is God's story in much of our ministry activity. The reality is it is that way throughout our lives. The real blessing though seems to come in acknowledging God's provision. It really is an act of worship appropriate at any time - not just Sunday!