God's Provision

I've been reminded time and time again about God's Provision.  I just came back from Basileia, which I will share more about in a post soon, but at the wonderful week in the Adirondacks with 350 students, God spoke.  He reminded me of how even though I've been stressing about raising the needed support to be staff on campus by Fall that He's got my back.  I mean, He is in charge of all of the money in the world, so me stressing is really just not trusting God to provide for my needs.
Last year, I started a little challenge against myself to see if I could go from April to June when I went to camp without buying groceries.  I could still buy a limited amount of fresh fruit, veggies, or milk and I wasn't able to increase the amount I went out to eat to cover my lack of grocery shopping.  I saw God provide in wonderful ways so I was never hungry.  This year I decided to do the same thing.  So far God has provided for me in many of the same ways as last year and also in new ways.  At Basileia, He challenged me to go until college starts back up in August.  That means five months of no groceries which means five months of having God provide for my basic needs.
For those of you who can't believe this can happen, I've learned that as students leave campus, they have to consciously use up the meal plan before the lose it.  I help out by eating on campus with them, which also gives me time to have some final goodbye chats.  Then people living in apartments check in with me and anything they can't or don't want to take home I end up with.  While I was gone this last week, I ended up with some new food in my fridge and freezer.  Additionally, my small group often has food at the gatherings and willingly shares leftovers with me and the other individuals who will eat it.  In many different ways, God proves that He will provide.
The last way that I've seen God working in caring for my needs, is that I decided to change my budget for IV staff.  Since to keep my teaching certification I still need to substitute about 2 days a week and therefore working 40 hours for IV and 14 teaching is a heavy load, my new budget is for me to work on staff just 30 hours a week.  I'll get all of the benefits of being a full-time staff worker, the smaller budget makes it more likely that I can start full-time in the Fall (as I am now over 50% of the way there), and then Fredonia will have me to support the vast changes that are planned for next year.  The vision is great, but God is greater and can accomplish all things.