Why We’ll Spend a Week Crying

Do you remember when we got 800 pounds of free chicken? Mr. McCrary (the man who gave it to us) is one of Jim’s customers. He runs a food ministry. Every week he gives us “stuff”.

This past Sunday, Jim was asking the children how they knew that God was real. Brett‘s answer was that, “Everytime I ask God for something from Mr. McCrary, we always get it. Except for the onions. But I guess we don’t really need those.”

Some background – last harvest we spent a week chopping and dehydrating our onion crop. It has lasted all winter, but we’re down to our last jar. We won’t be harvesting any for several months, so Brett has been praying for onions from Mr. McCrary.

This morning, the phone rings – it was Mr. McCrary. He told me that Jim had missed the stuff he had left out for him on Thursday. I told him I would give the message to Jim.

This evening, Jim pulls into the driveway and starts unloading his truck. He pulls out…

Yep – those are onions. 150 POUNDS of onions, to be exact. Wow – what an obvious answer to prayer. By the way, we’ve never gotten onions from Mr. McCrary before.

So… let the chopping and crying begin! 

PJ