The Day of No Fear- Ruth 2:1-3

There was a point during my husband’s illness when I realized the full meaning of fully relying in God. It was ten years ago, right before he received a liver transplant. He’d been on disability for a while, and I was an unpaid caregiver who hadn’t had a job in years. I hadn’t even published my first book yet.

We were at a tipping point of will he live or will he die. It wasn’t the first time being at that point, but it was the first time I thought for sure that death would win. Fear plagued me. What would happen to me after he was gone? I couldn’t even afford funeral costs. Would I end up homeless?

Then I remembered the kerosene potato soup I ate as a kid. Sounds appetizing, right? Well, it wasn’t, but we didn’t die from it.

Some of you have heard the story before. As a child, my family would go without electricity or the means to buy food. In the summer, we fished to eat. In the winter, a family friend would bring us huge bags of potatoes every week.

One time we got down to the last few potatoes. I washed them, peeled them, and made potato soup. When we sat down to eat, the soup tasted like kerosene. One of the cans we stored the fuel in had leaked and the potatoes soaked it up. There was nothing else in the house to eat so we ate the soup, and like I said, it didn’t kill us.

God miraculously provided something else for us to eat the next day and the next. We never went a day without. God had always provided for me in the past and I realized it that day in the hospital, waiting for a transplant. I’ve never worried about it again.

Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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