THE MIRACLE JACKET

 

THE MIRACLE JACKET

With the times becoming so turbulent, and all the signs before Christ’s return in place, I want to tell as many true stories as I can about His special goodness to me all my life.

            I remember a time when I had just changed jobs.  A graduate of Hamilton Teachers’ College, I had only been able to get supply work, and so accepted a job in Mississauga at a day care until I should get a teaching position.  Teaching jobs were hard to find just at that time.  However, between paychecks and beginning a job at which I would wear slacks, rather than dresses as in teaching, I needed a jacket to wear with the slacks, it being fall. My new landlady, from whom I had rented a furnished room, was selling some of her clothes.  For very little money I bought a beautiful, warm brown jacket lined with fleece.  The interesting thing is that while my landlady was shorter than I, the sleeves of the jacket were exactly the right length for me.  Too-short sleeves are often a problem for tall people.  So that is an example of how God looks after His children. The daycare job itself was wonderful provision, and working with early education professionals gave me many wonderful ideas to use later in my Kindergarten teaching and in the nursery school which we began on a native reserve.  God does not waste anything, and always goes ahead of us.

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