When the Lord decides to withhold something from you, he usually substitutes something better but not necessarily grander. I was in a car with a friend today when we decided to go to Taco Bell. I just wanted a chicken burrito and he also ordered a nacho grande, for himself “but hold the fried beans; you hear, no fried beans.”
When I opened my burrito, I soon found out they had withheld my fried beans from the burrito too, but then I tasted something crunchy. At first I thought it was an impurity like plaster, but then I realized it was crispy bacon. I had never had a burrito like that, and it was good.
We are in the hands of a kind Father, and much of what we explain as coincidence could also be an other-worldly source.
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