People sometimes say, “God will provide your needs but not your wants.”

According to God’s word, this simply is not true.

Psalms 34:9-10 says that we shall not want any good thing. Of course, conditions must be met. He just asks that we love Him, put Him first, and these things shall be added.

I always wanted to take a trip out West and with the exception of a trip to Milwaukee as a young girl, I had never traveled to any great extent.

Of course, I wanted this trip to be with my family and I was quickly losing them to lives of their own. The way my husband worked as a self-employed contractor, we had no time to go and when he wasn’t working, of course, we couldn’t afford it.

This is the way our Heavenly Father worked it out for us all. It came at a time when my husband was semi-retired and my daughter was still at home and between jobs.

My other daughter was married and expecting her second child. Her husband was somewhat self-employed and working jobs with my husband. We also had a friend who had no family ties and was working at McDonald’s in Florida. It was easy enough to quit a job at McDonald’s to go out West with the rest of us.

The deal was this: a lady, who was a former customer of my husband’s, asked if he and my son-in-law could move her furniture to Washington state and set it up there in her new apartment

The price she wanted to pay them was $6,000. We knew we had the perfect set-up for a nice vacation trip for the whole family. We then rented a moving van along with a seven passenger van and headed out along with our friend from Florida.

It was a wonderful twoweek trip that included the Grand Canyon, the California Redwoods, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the beach.

What I thought was interesting was, in spite of the fact we started our trip right after Thanksgiving, we never ran into bad weather. I would like to think it was because of my prayers and confessions that the roads would be clear and that we would have no trouble.

Think about it — a van packed full of a bunch of Tennessee hillbillies, basically unemployed, doing what most rich folks don’t have or take the time to do.

It sure is fun to let God be God.