Title: THE LORD ACTS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS

[For the past few days, three days, the microwave in the kitchen was acting weird. The date was always off in the mornings. And the computer in the middle bedroom was beeping.] This morning I got up as usual, thanked God for being alive, did some stretching exercises, turned on the radio then worked at the computer on one of my children’s books. After spending an hour at the computer, the radio went off, and my computer issued weird messages. At about 9:30, the lights went off, my computer battery started beeping, and the cordless phone quit working. I woke up my husband to tell him that we were experiencing a blackout or potential brownout, and reported it.

I was hungry. Fortunately, Denny’s was nearby. We had a nice time eating eggs and pancakes. Afterwards, I suggested that we should go to the nearby Goodwill store to look for items for our antique business because there was a possibility that the electricity would take a while to come back . The trip to Goodwill was rewarding. I found a few children’s books and my husband found some Windbergs and pottery that he could sell at our antique business.

In the Goodwill parking lot, a young lady approached us. Her car was parked beside ours and she had bought some items also, but she wanted to see what we had purchased. It turned out that she was an illustrator. She had an art degree from Denton. We talked for a while and we had some common interests because both of us were artists. Well, she was. I was just a potential watercolor illustrator. Anyway, she gave us her personal information, phone number and email address which was very nice of her. We also shared family remembrances. Her father was a firefighter who passed away from cancer. My brother, also a firefighter, passed away in 2016. The lady was from Lipan, a city near Granbury, Texas. She told us to call her in case we needed any information about art or the usage of water colors etc.