Power

We had some pretty icky weather here this morning.

I mean...I've seen worse. Worse was last week (or the week before...whenever...) when I was stuck in the bathroom at one in the morning with my odd assortment of "survive the tornado" things.

But today's storms took out power in our end of town...in every blessed building but mine. Yep. We got to work onward and forward. On a happy note, we also had the air conditioning. You take the good with the bad, right?

Anyway.

At lunch I went to the prayer chapel to pray. (Because that's a good thing to do in a prayer chapel. Sometimes I'm far too obvious for my own good.) The last few weeks, I've had to share my Wednesday prayer chapel time with two men who seemed to have settled upon the same time to pray. I didn't mind except the one time when I fell asleep praying and woke up as I fell off the pew. That was a little embarrassing.

Today, though, it was all mine. Those are my favorite days.

I slipped into "my" pew and launched right into quieting my heart and waiting before the Lord. When I felt settled, I started the prayer God has come to expect from me on a daily basis.

"God, I know what You've told me and You know I love the answer. But I just want to make sure I remain before You with an open heart. If I'm on the wrong path, please tell me. I want to know."

And as He does every day, He quieted my heart with the assurance that His answer stands and I'm doing the right thing in waiting for Him to heal and deliver.

I smiled and sat back in the pew, just enjoying His presence and an attitude of surrender.

Apparently I was fairly relaxed because the next thing I knew, a loud pop sounded and I nearly jumped over the altar.

Electricity came back on.

I hadn't even realized it wasn't working in the chapel. It's such a tiny place and it's very dimly lit. The time of day when I go, the place is lit from the daylight rushing through the stained glass, so I hadn't noticed the lights were off. I did think it was warmer than usual in there, but it wasn't stifling, so it didn't occur to me that the air wasn't running.

I was so glad those men were absent today because I just sat there in my pew and giggled.

How like God to restore power in the middle of the prayer of surrender.