Divine Lunacy is gratefully humbled

I have worked at my job for almost 15 years.  In that entire time, I have NEVER done a bone head thing like I did yesterday evening.  My co-worker had gone home sick earlier in the day, which just left me to work the front counter.  Part of our duties each night is to count down the drawer and then put the cash and checks into a blue zippered and locking bag before dumping it into the vault.  I had finished the count and had just walked up to the counter to put the cash and checks into said bag, when a customer walked up.  This one, a particulary annoying one.  He never has a completed application when he comes in (even though they are available on line) and spends 10 minutes filling one out (if he doesn't talk, which he seems to enjoy doing).  After waiting for him to fill it out and fertively glancing at the clock as the minutes counted down to 5pm, I discovered that I couldn't take is application after all.  He did not have a complete package to submit.  Relieved, I starting putting things away and getting ready to clock out and go home.  Another Monday behind me.

This morning, my supervisor went to open the vault to get the money bag for us to do the morning count and the deposit.  No money bag in the vault.  I thought, "Oh.  I just put it in the bag and stuck it in the drawer."  I went over to the drawer where the money bag resides during the day and to my absolute horror, I saw it.  I had set the cash and checks down on the printer table.  At first, I was (as I said) horrified; but then I realized something.  IT WAS STILL THERE.  $350.00 in cash and checks in excess of $22,000...STILL THERE.  I began to praise God right then and there.  Our area is not a secure area.  There are cleaning people and security guards that walk through all evening long.  Someone could have easily pocketed that cash and just walked away.

God works wonders.  He works miracles.  If that money (cash and/or checks) had turned up missing, I would have been booted out and the money taken out of my paltry salary.  God is so faithful in seeing to our needs.  He knows I need my job and so protected what I had been so careless with.  He made blind those that would have seen and taken it.

Thank You, God for protecting me and that money.  And please help me to NEVER do anything like that again.