Thursday, April 9, 2009

My pastor from back home wrote an e.mail today telling me that this bamboo shoot I gave him from my office happened to be sprouting all over the place. That would not be a big deal to blog about except this thing has never grown since I've had it. I watered it and then it would just stay the same. So you can imagine what I thought when I heard it was sprouting way back in Venice during my first week of work here at GRM. Could it be that it's God's way of encouraging me that there is all sorts of new growth happening for Caye Siller? I also thought of that plant in the movie E.T. and how it was connected to the life of ET. I hope that gives you a good laugh. I don't think that bamboo shoot is connected to me but it sure is true that there is all sorts of new life for me right now.


Cool God Story:
I was asked to lead a devotional for our Board Meeting today. I talked about “Chasing the Son!” and the concidence of my theme song being about the death of Christ (Yes, I will” was on my farewell order)…..Well here I am chasing the Sun to AZ and my first week of work happens to be the Passion week before Easter. Talk about weird? So then well into the meeting I give an update on my support. The book keeper here re-did my entire support needs and made all these fancy total boxes. Turns out my math was off (big surprise). Based on my needs in the budget I was only short 133.58 in order to be at 100%. Now that really is a small amount considering I thought I needed around $2000 more. I saw it as God’s provision though and as I was sharing one of our board members asked why there was still $133.58 left? I said, well I still need that much but it really was a blip compared to $30,000 that God has provided. We all laughed and in the laughter I said, “But hey, if anyone wants to make a contribution to make me 100% feel free!”. That same lady chimed in and said, “I think I will, Caye”. Of course my heart, was so greatful as she whipped out her checkbook in the middle of the board meeting and gave me the final amount. I later found out that this same week the VCS 3rd grade class also raised around $200 from a bake sale. Thank you guys! So here I am “Chasing the Son” and he has truly met all my needs.

3 comments:

NanAZ said...

What an awesome God we have!!! Down to the last penny. Wow! Thanks for sharing, Caye.

Yavonne said...

What an amazing story! Still remember you sitting in our kitchen pitching Greater Reach! We will pray for you!

Caye VanZandt said...

thanks for commenting....I'm honored that you are reading the blog.