God participates in Family Fun Day

It was innocent enough. A movie with the kids, a trip to the Science Center, and then out to eat at one of their favorite restaurants. The kids had slept in the living room on Friday night and had woken up kind of early on Saturday morning. Stacey had gotten up with a restless sleeper in the night but I had gotten a decent night's sleep. We had a relatively lazy morning. All except Stacey as usual. She runs on the treadmill and cleans the house for company on Sunday. The rest of us try to stay out of her way and help when we can.
The movie that we picked was the new Disney movie, "Meet the Robinsons". We knew absolutely NOTHING about the movie other than it was animated, it was from Disney, and was rated G. Some friends of Stacey's had discussed kid's movies recently and one lady that knows we are going through this project said that it was a good movie but did not mention any details of the movie. I'll try not to give too many of the details away but the opening scene is of an apparent young lady leaving her child at an orphanage. The story progresses and the audience learns that this child is very interested in science and is also frustrated by not being adopted. His plan is to invent some sort of memory machine that will allow him to recall what his mom looked like in the hope of finding her and making a family with her. Without going into a lot of detail, time travel is involved and the young boy ends up going into the future and meets his future family. He then has the opportunity to go back in time and meet the lady that dropped him off at the orphanage. He realizes that knowing who this lady is would likely change his life and his future and he might not have the future family that he has already met. Stacey stopped me from typing out the ending but what I took from it was this: God has a plan. He works things out according to His plan. His plan was for us to go and see that movie this weekend to get that little extra bit of encouragement that we need before we leave. He has a plan for us leaving at this moment in time and not a year earlier and not a day later. He has a plan. Some might call it a coincidence. Others might say that I am reading way too much into a set of circumstances, but not me. I believe that it is just another example of how God is gently encouraging us to do what He has called us to do. We may not have the luxury of knowing what is ahead of us. We do not have the ability to know what seemingly unimportant event in our past has put us where we are today. But we know that God has a plan. We know that eventually he will work it out for the good of those that call upon His name. And that is good to know.
Tomorrow is a full slate so I don't know if I will be posting tomorrow or not. I will try to get on Tuesday morning and sign off from state side. We have gotten several well wishes and we appreciate it a ton. Thanks so much for praying for us. We can literally feel the burden being lifted from us from knowing that other believers are praying for you. It is very comforting.