A Blue Wal-Mart car cart

It happened in a Wal-Mart parking lot....a full parking lot.

My oldest at the time was about 20 months and he LOVED riding in the carts that look like cars and are super hard to navigate through the store. You know those, right? If not, well, you haven't lived is all I'm saying.

If that's living, then living is overrated. Just one person's opinion.

But in the mind of my son, there was nothing else to live for.....only that very large blue car cart that had for the last several weeks been avoiding him.

But this morning, he was determined that the blue car would be his!

As he begged me to promise that he could have the car, I told him that maybe he should pray that Heavenly Father would help the cart be available when we got there. Yes, I know, sometimes God's answers are no and there was a high chance that the cart wasn't going to be there. But he prayed nonetheless.

As we pulled into the parking lot, my heart sunk because, like I said, the parking lot was FULL. As I put the van in park, I said a little prayer in my heart that there would be a cart so that my son could know for himself that God cared about him, that God had heard his prayer.

We made our way to where you pick up your carts, sitting there on the side was the biggest, most awkward blue car cart every known to man....okay, that's a little exaggerated. I guess a better way of saying it would be: Sitting there on the side was the biggest answer to my son's prayer...his heart's desire...the blue car cart.

Maybe is silly that I remember this. But maybe it isn't. I believe God gives us those tender mercies, those answers to the little things in our lives....at times when what we ask for are not live changing or life or death. But He recognizes our need to know that he is there.

Some may say, "Oh, well. That was just a coincidence." or "You were just lucky." Maybe so. Maybe so. BUT I don't believe that. I know that God heard both our prayers and felt to bless us in this way.

Prayer works, people. I know it does.

And that's that.

Thanks for listening.