PLENTY

If you get the chance to jump on the Siesta Fiesta blog, please do so & read Holly's post from yesterday. There you will find a moving story of the hands & feet of Jesus at work. She refers to what they have been going through as a desert of plenty. It brought to mind my own desert of plenty story to share.
A few years ago we had a house fire. It is strictly by the grace of God any of us survived. It was in the middle of the night, we only had 1 smoke alarm in the house, and the door to HH & my bedroom was closed. The men children's room was right next to the room with the fire. We could actually here the fire rolling in the ceiling above their room. Chills even now. I was awakened in the wee hours of the morning by a nagging beeping sound that I actually IGNORED the first couple of times I heard it. When I did finally get up to see what it was, I opened the door to a house filling up with smoke. I can not be any clearer - Jesus Christ SAVED our lives - all of us! No doubt - no arguments- end of story.
After we were all out safely & had called 911, we began to make the calls - to family & friends requesting prayer, letting them know what was going on. (Remind me someday to tell you what happened to make HH really upset with me that morning- funny funny). Anyway, some friends of ours from church (a former student of mine to be exact) had just bought a new house (they had only been it like 3 weeks) that had an extra bedroom. They offered it to us starting that night. We lived with them for 4 months and I can honestly say it was a blast. Now remember, we moved in a family of 4 into one bedroom-everything in ONE bedroom. One bathroom for our family - one bathroom for the two of them. 4 MONTHS! I don't recall a crossword, a fight, a "man they are getting on my nerves, etc". Honestly we were all sad when our house was fixed and ready for us to move back.
We drove by our friends house yesterday just killing time and man child one says
MC 1 - " I wish we could have another fire"
me - "why"
MC 1 - " so we could live with ___________& ________ again. Do you think during the summer we could come sleep over?"

Now my friends, that was living in the desert of plenty. That was only one of many ways the Lord blessed us during that time. Here's the point- He used people to do it. Our friends were the hands & feet of Christ to us. And we in turn get to be His hands & feet to someone else.
So today if you get the opportunity to be that for someone else - do it. You may well become a watering hole for them in their desert of plenty.