God has a sense of Humor

A few years after I remarried a problem surfaced. Kayle ( my oldest daughter) hated going over to her Dad's house every other weekend. She never quite felt like part of that family. My ex husband had married his 4th affair after she got divorced. She had three children one boy and twin girls older than Kayle. Kayle wasn't given a bed when she visited she was made to share with the twins or sleep on the couch or floor. She felt like she wasn't there visiting her father, she was there to entertain the kids. She would come home and cry and complain every weekend she was there.

So one day I suggested that maybe if we could find the kids father (we will call him Tom) that we could have the kids over to our house to swim one weekend so she could share her life with them. She thought that was a great idea. She tried to ask for Tom's phone number but was not allowed to have it. So we decided to start praying every night that we would find Tom.

So it went, every night she would close her eyes and ask the Lord to help us find Tom.

At that time I worked for a wonderful company called Orthologic. I can honestly say it was one of the best places to work I have ever experienced and I still have a very close relationship with many of the people I worked with. The only draw back to this wonderful place was that it was in Tempe on Priest and Washington and I lived at the time at 35th Ave and Bell. It was a long drive to say the least. One day I was sitting in my cubical outside the IT director's office and I heard him talking on the speaker phone to the receptionist down stairs. She was telling him that Tom so and so was down stairs in the lobby for him. I can honestly say my heart felt like it stopped cold in my chest. Surely I heard her wrong she didn't say my Tom's name the one that Kayle and I had been praying for!

I got up and ran into the IT directors office and ask what the receptionist had just said. He looked at me puzzled and ask if I were OK. Apparently I was white as a sheet. He confirmed the name that I thought I heard was indeed in the lobby and that he was about to offer him a job. I was stunned. I had ask that God help me find Tom not plop him in my lap! I shared with the director who and what Tom was to me and he felt like Tom should know that I was here before he offered him the job. Because you see, not only was Tom to work here at Orthologic but his desk would be right behind mine.

So I went down stairs and it took him a second or two to recognize me because we hadn't seen each other for a few years Tom had moved to Scottsdale after the divorce. We were neighbors when our respective spouses had an affair. I explained to him that I worked here and that the director was going to offer him a job but thought if best he knew what he was getting into. Needless to say he was just as shaken as I was.

Much to my surprise Tom accepted the position and even though he never did feel comfortable bringing his kids to my house his presence right behind me made a big difference in the quality of life for our children at the other household. You see our ex's could no longer use each other as excuses for not allowing something to happen. We could just ask the other if the truth was being told. The manipulation stopped from the other house and it was glorious.

To top things off Tom is an atheist and I got to witness to him and I told him that Kayle and I prayed to find him so to me he was a gift from God. He didn't like it very much being my gift from God but you can't deny....

The Lord really does have a sense of humor.