This wouldn't share from my profile: Another Story of God at Work in the Little Things of the Home

Last Saturday, Ashley and I went shopping and ended up purchasing three major groups of stuff:

 

a) regular groceries (maybe $20 over budget), b) Holiday groceries, (close to $100), and back to school stuff for Ashley and hoped-for shoeboxes later this fall (another $45 roughly).

 

 

Superstore was having one of those gas events where you get so much off per litre if you spend so much in groceries. For the first time in who knows how long, I had enough to warrant the largest dollar value off per litre on the coupon! I was thrilled, double-checked the use-by date, and put it on my desk knowing that during this staycation, a time would come when I'd have to fill up again.

 

 

That time came tonight. We'd driven to and from the Trestles, out to the Kangaroo farm in lake country down to Crock Talk in east Kelowna and then down Lakeshore to Carmelis Goat Cheese past Bertram Park, then all the way out north of Vernon to the Atlantis Waterslides. I'd already used a quarter tank for work the week previous and was now down to a quarter tank tonight and figured I'd go gas up after midweek prayer.

 

 

It was at midweek prayer when I was told that gas prices are rising all over town as of today due to a rifinery going up on flames somewhere in the US. I was told of only one gas station that hadn't moved yet.

 

 

I left midweek prayer and went to Superstore's gasbar to use the gas coupon, only to also discover that it too had not yet moved up the price! I paid only $1/litre tonight for roughly 38 litres of fuel to fill the 3/4 empty tank!

 

 

Needless to say, I was thanking God for the timing of that coupon, the timing of the groceries needed to get that coupon, and the fact that the Superstore Gasbar had not yet raised their prices! I would never have foreseen that combination of events. All I knew was that I had a regular run, a holiday run, and got a coupon because of it.

 

 

I saved almost $10 off the total cost of my gas purchase tonight!

 

 

Thank You Lord for making that gas fill affordable.