Snow

I heard this story during worship service today.

The pastor met a young man who planned to do some traveling around the Middle East & Europe. After this young man arrived at Israel, he found out that the church needed a lot of help, so he stayed and helped out. And he lived there for 1 year.

He told the pastor that it would snow that night. The pastor asked if he knew this from the weather forecast. He said no, he knew because he had asked God to give him snow that night as his birthday present. According to his original plan, he would have been in Europe by that time and got to see snow on his birthday, but because he stayed in Israel, he couldn't see snow, so he asked God for it.

The pastor thought he was an idiot. And told him so. If one prayed for sunny weather, another prayed for rain and yet another prayed for snow, what would God do?

That night, the pastor saw some ash like stuff floating outside the window, he thought something was burning. When he stuck his hand out, he found out it was actually snowing. And he felt tears running down from his eyes.

Later, the pastor discussed this with his wife, they suspected if they had not actually doubted whether God would answer the young man's prayers, maybe the prayer would remained unanswered. haha!