Tamales

Some people might call it coincidence; some, synchronicity. I call it answer to prayer, from this definition of prayer that I learned as a teenager:  "Prayer is the soul's sincerest desire, uttered or unexpressed." These days, I strive to keep myself in the place of possibility by daily meditation and consciously choosing love, grace, and peace above all else.

Here's what happened: My daughter and son-in-law will arrive for a visit on the day that my husband and I return from a trip. We'll meet up at the airport. All good, except that I won't have my typical week-before-a-visitor-comes to cook and prepare. So I wondered if Virginia might agree to make for us some of her wonderful tamales, realizing that she typically does that at Christmas, and this is August.

Moments later, the phone rang. Virginia. She said, "I'm making tamales this week-end. Would you like some?"

"Thank you, God," I said, realizing that no request is too small.

You write it:  How does answer to prayer manifest for you?