God answers the small prayers, too.

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January 29th was the 1-year anniversary of a horrible ice storm for northwest Arkansas. And what was the forecast for this day? Snow! Folks were leary that it would be a repeat of a year ago. But it wasn’t. There was no ice, but we had plenty of snow, 6-8-10 inches, depending where you were.

Friday and Saturday the library where I work was closed. It gave me an extra day for the weekend. Sat. Hubby, who works nights, got up in the afternoon. So he was willing to help me do some driveway shoveling. Being a heart patient, he could not last too very long. At that point we had over ½ the driveway done. I told him I would try to at least, get the rest of one side done, so we can get our truck in and out.

I was about 2/3’s done when I was getting exhausted as well. I’d pick up 2-3 shovels full, then stop and rest my head on the end of the long handle. Every time I stopped, panting and resting my head, I prayed, "Lord please send me some help". A car would go by. Then another. Most didn’t even look sideways, but were focused on what was ahead. But I kept it up. I’d shovel; I’d stop-rest-and-pray. I’d shovel; I’d stop-rest-and-pray. After a few cycles of this, I heard a noise across the street. A young teenager, with a shovel in his hand, hollered out. “Would you like some help?”

“Thank you, Lord!” immediately went through my mind. BUT, not wanting to sound to eager I said, “Well, uh, sure; it would sure be nice…” trying to stall a little bit (but not much!). By that time he was in the drive. He started shoveling. I felt a little guilty letting him do all the shoveling, but he told me I didn’t need to shovel any more, he’d do all the rest. He was willing to shovel all of the snow on the driveway, but I told him to shovel what we started out to do. He finished it in no time!! I gave him a small gift of remuneration with a promise of chocolate chip cookies he said were his favorite.

A few days later, I fulfilled my promise with cookies, and met his parents – our neighbors - in the process. Maybe this will be a bridge to evangelism later. I thanked all of them again for his help.

Second answer: (this won’t be as long.)
President’s Day weekend I had the day off, so with my honey’s blessings I went to KC for the weekend to see my friends, my “lunch buddies,” from where I used to work, as well as other co-workers, even friends from a church that we attended at one time.

On my way home, I had a driver “tailing” me. So to encourage him/them to pass, I slowed down a little. They came up beside me and put a note in the passenger window: “Your plate blew off.” My plate??? I was trying to remember if I had set a paper plate on the top of the car when I got in, but a paper plate would have blown off a lot sooner. I didn’t have a paper plate in my hand, tho. Finally I mouthed to them “license plate?” After the second time of “saying” it – the lady in the passenger seat nodded her head yes.

I went to the next overpass and turned around and began the search. All the time, I prayed, Lord please direct my eyes right to the plate. I called 911. They were no help. :-( So I kept looking. I decided to go back to one more intersection, then I would quit and head home. Within about 2-3 tenths of a mile of the intersection, I saw a plate. I was driving back north at that point. The plate laid to the left of the southbound lanes. I didn’t know what our plate number was, but it was the right state and expired the right month. It didn’t look weather worn like it had laid out in the weather a long time, so I took it. (It turned out to be the right plate.) I turned around, headed back south, made a pit stop in the next town and put the plate in the window. THANK YOU, LORD! Another answered prayer – not to mention his protection while I looked – a prayer given before I had left home for KC, MO.

Life Lesson? God isn’t interested in just the Big Things in our life. He’s interested in the little, minor, minute(?) details as well. God is Awesome!!! He doesn't ALWAYS answer these kinds of prayes, especially so quickly. But He can and He does. And it's all to His glory!