Where is God?

In the early 1960's my family and I were serving as lay missionaries in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico.  During the school year I taught seventh and eighth grade Spanish American boys.  In the summer I was free to be assigned wherever needed.  This particular year the priest asked me if I would go to a small town about a hundred miles away to assist the chaplain at the state correctional school.  We were to live in an abandoned school and receive support for our material needs from the main mission.  Things went well at first, but eventually those responsible for our financial support forgot us until our cupboards were almost depleted.  Each day I would look at our supplies and say, Lord, I think you're going to have a problem.  I don't know how you're going to solve it, but I think you are in deep trouble.  Sure enough, one day we got up and discovered the cupboards were bare..  I chuckled to myself thinking, Lord, you sure have a sense of humor.  You're bringing us right up to the line.  Nothing happened until ten a.m. when there was a knock on the door and Joe, a friend from the correctional school,  brought us two buckets of skimmed milk.  Joe said, "The farmer was going to throw this skimmed milk away and I thought maybe you and your family could use it."  He had no idea of our dilemma and how much we needed it.  My wife had enough flour and other ingredients to bake bread which our five little ones immediately devoured.  Later in the afternoon we received some money from Irene Gardner and her friends who were L.A.P.D. police officers

This is very interesting when you consider whom God chose to manifest Himself in charity. Irene and her friends were upstanding members of the community and loyal supporters.  Joe was an unrepentant sinner, an alcoholic and seducer of young girls yet it was Joe, not the bishop, the priest or the mayor whom God used to manifest his majesty and love.  What does this prove?  God is everywhere, especially where you least expect Him.  He will use whom He chooses to do his work.  We should be humbled by this thought, less inclined to judge and willing to reach out to all of God's children no matter who they may be.   

                                                                                            Bill Starrs, Founder PCI

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