IT Show's in town!

IT show! I like those shows with the multitude displays of technology! I don't claim to be tech savvy but I can say that I'm the 'one eyed in the land of the blind', at least where technology is concerned.

So, despite a busy weekend, I managed find some time after Mass on Sunday to go for the show but.. couldn't find company to go with.  I was disappointed as I don't like going to such places alone but I wasn't going to miss this one and I did have a couple of small things I wanted.

So, Sunday morning, after mass, as I was walking back to the convent, I said to God.. "why won't you give me someone to go to the IT show with!!".  God responded "you didn't ask me, though you asked a number of other people!". Oh! So, there and then I asked God, "please send me someone to go to the IT show with". 

When I reached the convent, I found that there were 3 calls and a message on my mobile!! It was my nephew asking me to call my cousin who had called to say he would go to the IT show with me! God sure worked fast!! I was totally delighted and this was my cousin who refused to go for Mass!! I told him when we met that he had actually responded to God's call to him to accompany me! He wasn't too happy about that but simply brushed it aside...

We went... taking 2 short train rides and walking quite a bit... The IT show was crowded but it was manageable. I got what I wanted and as we shoved and pushed our way around my cousin, who claimed that he was just accommodating my request bought a number of large and heavy items!! We left within a couple of hours as the crowds were getting chaotic! I ended up carrying a large and heavy bag for my cousin as he was carrying an equally heavy and bulky bag!... again the journey home was ~ two train rides and a walk.

So... what did I learn from that.. that God has a real sense of 'humour'. This was, of course, at the expense of my 'need'. I got my company but I also got to carry the heavy bag and realized that in fact, God sent me to help my cousin carry stuff  he bought! A comic irony indeed! Trust God to play a trick like that! God's ways, to say the least, is amazingly unfathomable and totally unexpected :)) and basically, I do love God that way. Pax!