Little is much when God is in it!! I decided I wanted/needed (?) a chest of drawers for our bedroom. We have a waterbed we bought for $100 twenty-two years ago and then a pretty nice entertainment center we bought new when we moved here 6 years ago. I have a lovely jewelry armoire that Richard gave me for Christmas some 10 years ago. Richard has a little chest of drawers that we bought at a garage sale here in our neighborhood a couple of years ago. SO~~~~~~nothing matches. It is quite eclectic bedroom furniture that we have. No one else ever sees it, and it works for us. When I decided we needed a new (large) chest of drawers, we had heard about a row of used furniture stores downtown. Richard removed a door from our nice entertainment center and off we went.
The first four stores we entered didn't have anything we could use and NOTHING I would have had. JUNK!!! The 5th store we entered, was the place we were looking for. A nice young man greeted us. Across the room stood MY chest of drawers. I walked right over to it and spied the ticket: $167. Richard had told me that we ought to stay in the $100 range (remember, we were looking at used furniture), so I asked the young man if he would take less. He said he would have to call his dad and ask. As he was dialing the phone, I asked him to ask his dad if he would take $100 for the chest. I figured we could dicker from there and meet about halfway.
The young man talked to his dad for a moment and in a second called across the room to us that, "My dad said you can have it for.................................. (my breath was baited!).....................$100!!!!! We paid, loaded her up, and hauled her home. It looks lovely with the entertainment center. I put all of my jewelry in boxes in the top drawer and am going to give my beautiful jewelry armoire to Amy as it will match her cherry bedroom furniture perfectly.
"Little is much when God is in it!" It is so neat to know that God heard my prayer for a used piece of furniture and answered abundantly!!
.JPG)
17 years ago
