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I wanted to do something in memory of my friend Dick Ryerson<\/a> except there were no charities specified in his obituary. I had asked his brother what mission organization he did his work projects for, and the brother didn\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in keeping with Friday\u2019s blog on wisdom, I prayed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord, please tell me to whom and how much to give. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number came into my mind, and I thought at first I would send it to Dick\u2019s church with instructions to use it to help someone go on a mission trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I remembered that Dick and I had discussed his mission trips way back in 2016 with respect to a friend of mine who was looking for short-term mission opportunities. So I found that email conversation (stored in Evernote) and the name of the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a brief email exchange with the executive director, I made the contribution, specifying that it be used to help someone who couldn\u2019t afford it take a trip. An hour later the executive director called with this story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted you to know that we have a trip coming up, and the fellow who was supposed to lead got COVID. So I called someone who said he could go, but he couldn\u2019t afford to pay for it. Just then, your donation came in to cover that replacement\u2019s trip. Thank you. – <\/em>Ronald Spears, Executive Director, www.cwe-missions.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love it when a plan comes together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (James 1.5, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to do something in memory of my friend Dick Ryerson except there were no charities specified in his obituary. I had asked his brother what mission organization he did his work projects for, and the brother didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 So, in keeping with Friday\u2019s blog on wisdom, I prayed. Lord, please tell me to … Continue reading God Guides<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-ZU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}