For the past one week I had been very excited because I was finally going home to my family....my itinerary was well mapped out and i was checking out from Charles De Gaulle airport on the 31st of january, which is today......Saturday night i took the night train from Perpignan as planned. I was one hour early even though the train station was just a stone throw from where i was staying.......... The train was a train with beds and cabins, i got to my cabin, quickly choose my bed, arranged my stuff, excited that i was going to see my "baby" after a long while.....ten minutes later my journey began and i was floating in cloud nine thinking of all the goodies waiting for me...... As we commenced our journey we stopped at different stations to pick passengers, some of them being my temporary roommate...... One of my temporary roommate was an interesting lady, a mother of two maybe in her early fifties.......Immedaiately he got into the cabin she started talking, she told me a little about her family and her career. We talked for a while till it was time to go to bed. By 6.30 a.m. i was awake, waiting earnestly for the announcement saying that we had gotten to Paris, when the train conductor suddenly announced that he was sorry but the train was delayed by 2 hours......... 2hours...that meant i had missed my flight......
Confused and upset i started crying..........i was asking God what i was going to do?.....i was nervous, frustrated and above all stranded in a strange land with no family............my friend in the train told me to calm down....how was i to calm down i just had money for a taxi to the airport and that was it. Missing my flight meant i was obligated to sleep in a hotel in Paris, change my booking which was extra money and to crown it all banks weren't open, so no body could pay money into my account..............
In the midst of my confusion God worked "this french lady who i had just meet, who didn't even believe in God, but in some chinese religion, who was just feeding from hand to month gave me 50 euros.....
Now you have to understand that for the average person here 50 euro is one week's salary......I told her that i would pay, she just told me to take it, add to what i have and sort myself out.......
Her gesture thought me this that God can use anybody be it a witch, a native doctor, a christian, a thief, whoever to achieve the purpose he Has for His children.........
He really works in mysterious ways trust me : " God will never forsake you, just always trust in Him and never let go"
welcome back dear friend. i hope u learnt alot and have it in mind that u will teach me alot too.
ReplyDeleteur encounter like others we have everyday proves to us that God can never mismanage our destinies. He never leaves His own stranded and indeed ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT, ANGELS ARE WATCHING OVER US.
i love how He deliberately never lets us settle for the routine but to have to be refreshed in how we relate to Him.
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