It’s the end of the night and I’ve decided I have waited on
my last table. “You can take that one.” I tell Cory. “No ma’am it’s your turn.”
He replies with a smile. So I’ll take another table. I walk over to greet them
as I do with every other table. They order and I go about my business doing
whatever side work needs to be done. I check on them a few times and they seem
to be doing just fine. I walk by to see if they need their food boxed up and
the man smiles at me. “You are a beautiful, sweet, soft spoken young lady. And
you are doing an absolutely wonderful job.” I reply with a smile and a few
thank yous. He goes on to tell me they were having a special dinner because she
was leaving to go back to California and that I had made their night really
perfect.
So next, I offer dessert. Quite honestly I was very tired. I
had worked a double shift and it was 20 minutes until close. They order my
suggested dessert, homemade tiramisu and a café Romano. I drop off the check. A
few minutes go by and I go to see if they are ready to pay. The man hands me a
wad of cash with a $100 bill on the outside… “Umm, what is this for…?” I ask
with a bit of confusion. “That is your tip young lady, and I’m going to write
another tip on the credit card slip here. I just want you to know you are
something really special and you are going to be successful in whatever you do.
And we appreciate you, so be blessed.” Okay I’m pretty sure this is when I went
into shock. Then he hands me the credit card slip with a $50 tip written on it.
“Uhh.. thank you.. I don’t know what to say.. thank you so much.. you have no
idea how much I appreciate this.. I’m probably going to cry.. Why are you
tipping me so much?” and He says, “Because I told her, the Spirit of God is on
this young lady. She is something really special, I can see it.”
I thanked them probably another 5 times and they just smiled
and said, “be blessed.” So I walk off and around the corner. I unfold the wad
of cash he had handed me and realize it was $500. Tears well up in my eyes as I
realize my God has just overwhelmed me. I had been praying all day for God to
show up because I haven’t been making what I need to make at work. I know my
God is faithful and supplies all my needs so my prayer from that morning was
“God I don’t know what I need to be doing but if I’m not doing it tell me. I
need you to bring in some money because I don’t have nearly enough and I know
you are more than capable and so I’m just trusting you and waiting.” Can I just
tell you My God is Faithful.
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has
anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to
proclaim the favorable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all who mourn, to grant those who mourn in Zion, giving them a garland
instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise
instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord that He may be glorified.” Isaiah 61:1-3
