Kerfuffles & Past Current Provision

So I had a paycheck kerfuffle the past week or so.    I didn't get my first paycheck because the paperwork didn't get processed quick enough (I may have turned them in late, I'm not sure though).  Either way I didn't get the check.    So I went up the the college cashier and they said that it would be added to the next paycheck.  Last Friday I was suppose to get my paycheck, I was told that they will either mail it on Thursday or I can pick it up on Friday.  I decided to pick it up.  Friday I went up to the cashier and they handed me my check.  Later I opened the check and found a couple things, 1) I get paid $8.25 and hour, and 2) I only got my first paycheck, the second one was not part of this check.  So I went back up the the cashier and talked to them.  The lady that was in charge of that was in a meeting, so the lady I talked to told me she would write a note and pass it on to the right person when she gets back.   She told me that I likely wouldn't hear from them until Monday.  Monday comes and I go to work.  At work, my supervisor came and told me what had happened.   When I first started work instead of creating a new spreadsheet for me to clock my hours in, they used an old one form someone who doesn't work there anymore, and just changed the name on the file.  However, when it came time to turn my hours in, I printed off my time sheet for the last two weeks, signed it and turned it in.   I missed, along with whoever did it, that the old employee's name was on top in the spot indicating who get's paid.  So they had paid someone who doesn't work there anymore.   They worked it out and gave me my paycheck by the end of the day.  They also created me a new spreadsheet so it wouldn't happen again.     God is good to me.  

During all that time (about a month), my budgeting program kept telling me that if I pay off my credit card bill, I'd have nearly -$4.00 in my bank.   And I needed money for fuel.  But, as usual, God provides in His own sort of way, and in a timing of many months ago!  

Wait?  You mean to say that God provided for what you in your need now, He provided that months ago???

Yup!   I didn't realize it until the need came.  During the fall months of 2017 I had found, twice, a BP Fuel gift card on my car.  In total, $75 in Fuel gift cards.   I was saving them for one of the many trips I thought I would take.  However, each time it came time to take one of those trips, it fell through.  I wasn't too thrilled at the time but it was such a blessing.   He also allowed me to pick up the flu over Christmas and to be sick for 2+ weeks so that I didn't travel over that time, so I didn't drive and use fuel during that time, and so that I could not get it while the children and employees I work with are picking up the sickness.    Then when it came time to fill up and I had no money, God reminded me that I have the gift cards.   Between driving to my appointments and carpooling with Bethany and Jesse, I had exactly enough to last me until I got paid!  

God is soo Good!    He provides in His own way and in His own timing!  Even that timing may come as a surprise when it sometimes was something He had already provided for and I just didn't see it.  God is Perfect in all His ways, in all that He does and in everything He works out.   God ... is .... Good!