Jehovah-Jireh

God is truly my provider, and this past semester has provided numerous examples of that for me, in various manifestations. First of all, I did not find a job this semester--my class schedule and crew did not allow enough time for a job and everything else that comes with college--and the monies I arrived on campus with went quickly to books. Collegiate textbooks burn money faster than most fires, and I did not have much of it to burn at the start of things. Income that I had been expecting did not arrive due to extenuating circumstances, and so out of about $1250, I received nothing for the first month and a half of the semester.
Now, I did not have too many expenses, mainly a few necessities like soap, shampoo, food on regatta trips, but no income minus even a just a few expenses equals diminishing--slowly perhaps, but nonetheless diminishing--funds. At one point, I had $1.78 to my name down here. That was toward the end of November, and I had a cell phone bill coming up, gas expense to drive home, as well as an oil filter and five quarts of oil to change mine in the Volvo. But then I got a check from home for enough to cover that bill and get the oil and oil filter--with $4.90 left to finish out the semester! However, with the gas prices today, one does not make it too far on the interstate with four dollars and 90 cents of gas in the tank.
Again though, graciously God provided, and in a snowball course of events, I scrounged up $25.08 in rolled coins, loose change, and a few bills I had in my room and wallet, received $31.75 for selling one book, a check for $50 from home, and a second check for $75 for a second book. And now with that in hand, I should be able to make it home without charging all my gas on a credit card, which was my "last ditch" plan to get home.
God has provided for me yet again.