We had a kick-off concert last night to inaugurate Gary Brandt's first CD production and in spite of less-than-the-best weather conditons we had a nice turnout for the supper/concert.

This is something that I wrote on Tuesday morning:

Faith

For the past several months, several friends and I have been working to produce a CD with Gary Brandt, a talented area musician. To kick off the sale of the CD, a concert is planned for Wednesday night.

As we worked with the company making the musical discs, I have had the opportunity to talk at length to two different people concerning every aspect of the production. They seem to be very reputable people, working with an organized business. When I talked with one of the employees several week ago, I told her that we needed to have the CDs prior to December 10, concert night.

She always pledged they would be available on time. "We are shipping them today," she said, when I called, one week ahead of our needed date. "It is a two-day delivery from New Jersey to Iowa via UPS, so you will get them on Monday. If you want to call back tomorrow, we will give you a tracking number to follow the progress."

I never called back to the CD production company and I didn't know the status of the valuable packages. I knew two things: I believed this company knew what they were doing and talking about; and I trusted UPS and their reputation of getting things delivered consistently. I had "faith" in both of them.

Walking with our dog on Monday afternoon, I saw the dusty UPS truck turn at the corner, south of our farm home and head east. Without actually getting back to our house, I knew that our CD packages had arrived.......two days ahead of the actual concert date.

Same things God wants from us. He wants us to talk with him on "everyday" issues and to get to know Him and His reputation for taking care of all the details of our lives. He wants us to know Him so well that we can believe what He tells us, even if our "packages" haven't been delivered yet. He wants us to do, what I did for the UPS company, to trust His reputation of getting us, and "things", cared for consistently.

If that happens, we won't have to worry about tracking numbers or need to run and to rip open boxes to see if our desired "products" have arrived. All we have to do is continue our walk back to the house, praising God for the stack of packages we know is waiting for us inside. Everything will be taken care of for us........like always, and just in the nick of time!