Think God work in mysterious ways?

if you do, then you may be right.

Last night I was feeling sick and I wasn't feeling much better when I woke up this morning.

I was going through various ways I could get out of church today... cause I was the reader. I thought of having my mom go in and let them know I wouldn't be there to do the readings, then I thought of just going in and saying I was too sick to be there then I'd go right home. Well, the good Catholic that I am... I started feeling guilty, so I thought, well maybe I'll just do the readings and leave right after the second reading. But then I thought, if I'm going to have to read I may as well do the intentions to as I'm suppose to do after the homily, and THEN I'd leave.

So I get there and I find the cantor wasn't going to show up. Well being a cantor myself, they asked if I could cantor as well. Well there goes the whole leaving early thing, but at least I knew all the songs so I figured, it's just one hour. I can go home and sleep after mass. I figured it wouldn't hurt to help out. If I hadn't showed up they would have been stuck without a singer or reader. Since I stayed I did both.

Was it ever lucky I decided not to just sleep in and not show up myself.

Well, then my mom decides she wants to go to the casino. I wasn't feeling good and didn't really want to go... but my mom really wanted to go and she won't go alone. So I sucked it up and figured I could sleep after the casino. I figured it wouldn't hurt to do something nice for my mom.

Was it ever lucky I decided not to sleep after mass and went with my mom...

I went to the casino, sat down at a penny slot machine... plopped in $20, hit the button... and immediately got a bonus round. In the bonus round the three middle columns were wild. When the three middle columns are wild, you won't win any less than $20 a spin.

when all was said and done I won $150 in one bonus round. (Technically 1 spin.) I cashed out cause you will never win that big twice in a row (and a it stood, the 2 people who sat there after me didn't win anything.) so I took my original $20 and went to play black jack. I doubled that $20 and walked out of the casino with $200 which is exactly what I needed to put on one of my bills.

So I thought about it a bit now that I finally am in bed and relaxing. God really does work in mysterious ways.

I didn't want to go to Church cause I was sick, but I went and luckily I did because I also had to sing since the cantor didn't show up. Then I didn't want to go to the casino but I went because my mom really wanted me to, and I ended up $200 richer. It was almost like a thank you from God. Like he knew I was sick, but I did things I didn't feel up to doing anyway because I wanted to be helpful, and the money that I can put towards my bill was like a thank you.

you never know.