Love Missions but Fear the Financial Cost?

“Mom, I need $2700.00 in three days,” she calls from across the ocean.

“What? We already sacrificed so much for the first part of this mission? O.k., I guess we’ll just take it from saving.” I think to myself, but say nothing.

After all, she is eighteen. What does she really know about the reality of finances? Or does she remember that time we needed six-hundred more dollars to take our family on a mission’s trip to Guatemala; getting our shoes on to go to the bank, a check showing up at our front door at that exact moment, for $1000.00.

Maybe it was me that needed faith, trusting the same big God my teenager sees clearly?

“Don’t worry Mom, I am going to get the money. I just know it.”

And I get that she is determined, worked hard to save and fund-raise, and now believes that God will provide…but $2700 in three days?

*  Finish reading the miraculous story of our daughter, Cidney, discovering “Four Times God Provides” over at Missional Women, by clicking here.