Fax from Heaven?

Years ago, I worked with an associate pastor who was in a life and ministry transition. He was perplexed and wondered what to do. He'd often come in and say, jokingly:

"Has my FAX from God came in yet? I've been asking Him what to do."

(This was before the days of wide-spread email use. A FAX was considered a marvel at the time.)

I thought that was hilariously funny and often through the years would say, "Well, I haven't received a FAX from God yet, so ..."

Fast forward to last week.

When I left the office on Thursday, I was the last one in the building, except for Pastor. Come Friday morning, I was the first one to walk in.

Sitting in the printer was a message printed in color. It looked like a flyer. It so happens my printer is the only color printer in the building. It also happens to be a fax machine, 

I looked at it and knew I had not created the document. I figured Pastor must have done it. He probably wanted it to be in color and so had picked my printer for the print job.

I set it aside.

Later in the day, Pastor had come in and was busily working on his sermon. I went into his office to have him proof the bulletin and grabbed the flyer, too. 

After handing him the bulletin, I said, "Oh, and here's your flyer."

He looked at me and asked "What are you talking about? I didn't make this."

"You didn't? But we were the only ones in the building ... I know I didn't make it."

He started laughing. "I promise you, I did not make it. Maybe God sent it!"

I joined in laughing, "Well, I've always begged God to send me a FAX but I didn't think it would be this!"

Are you curious what the message said? 

If you think about it, it's exactly what He would say!

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I'm sharing this post with the communities at Soul Survival and Char's Trekking Thru.

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Oh, and by the way, I did discover someone had been in the library after I left the night before because a piece of equipment was moved to the table from the floor. So, possibly someone used the printer ... or not ...