Sometimes God throws you chaotic days that become opportunities for grace in the middle of disorder. Yesterday was one of those for us.

Margaret minds two little boys two days a week. Tristan and Caleb are really cute little kids about 1 and 2 years age respectively. We often get them about 9 am and often look after them until after 6 pm. Even though they are very placid, they still require Margaret's full-time attention, except for those seemingly rare occasions when they synchronise their sleeps!

So this was the perfect day for everyone else to visit us also.

Our electrician turned up at the same time as the boys to wire in the new stove- another step forward in our eternal kitchen renovation. Jamie isn't a christian but he's like an old friend. When he had finished the job, he said to Margaret "Now you'll be able to bake dinner for your family." Margaret replied that it might not happen real soon (certainly not that day!), but along the way she said "You are always welcome to come around for dinner." At that point Jamie said, "There are religious people and christian people, and you are definitely christian people." What a wonderful affirmation!

Shortly after this the pest exterminators turned up. We discovered termites in the church bathroom a few months ago and had called them in to kill the little pests. We are really fortunate that they had only got into the cupboards and not into the structure of the building. Yesterday the pest men came to spray some poison where the cupboards had been and along the outside of the building. After they had finished, the off-sider said, "If you chuck up some prayers the man upstairs should keep you termite free." Although he said it in a joking way, I think he was saying that he knew that God is looking after us.

To join the circus, our truck-driving friend Daniel turned up. He drives interstate from Brisbane to Melbourne and back each week and often he calls in when his schedule permits. Lately he's been trapped into a schedule that sees him away from home on Sundays. So he values our half hour of chat, counsel and prayer. Because the church was being fumigated I took him into our toy-strewn lounge room.

Daniel had told me on a previous visit about another driver in the same company whom he had seen a week or so before. This man's leg had become swollen and he was scared it would turn gangrenous. The doctors couldn't find the cause of the problem and it was sore and making it hard for him to work. Daniel was thinking he should offer to pray for him, but chickened out. When I saw him, he was feeling a little guilty, but I reassured him that if God wanted him to pray for him he would soon see him again and the conviction to pray would be so strong he couldn't resist it.

So yesterday Daniel told me that he had seen the driver again and had prayed for him to be healed. A few days later the man told him that the prayer must have worked because his leg was much better! Praise the Lord!

Daniel had discovered that this other man was half an hour or so behind him on the road. He called him and described exactly where our church is and encouraged him to call in. Daniel wasn't able to stay any longer, and the other guy didn't stop- but we did see the truck go past and it looked like the driver was looking at where we are as he went past.

James came and picked up Tristan and Caleb just in time for us to grab something to eat and then go out to Cell Group. I was really tired, but I just really felt that God was right there with us in the group. There was a lot of joy and peace in the group and most of the people are wanting to grow in their relationship with God. We may not all be where we should be, but I think over the next few months we are going to see some radical changes take place.

It was a long day, and most of it felt disordered and chaotic. But God was there in the chaos, pouring out the blessings along the way.