Are You Superstitious...And Still Wearing Church Clothes?

 

For almost three months, nothing happened. Not almost nothing.

Nothing.

I had introduced two people who clearly needed to meet. One had access to doors — platforms, programs, interviews, visibility opportunities, and spaces where meaningful stories could reach the people who needed them.

The other carried a message born out of compassion, grief work, healing, and service. Her life’s work was helping hurting people find language for pain, memory, loss, love, and hope.

It made sense.

Too much sense.

That was the strange part.

Have you ever made a connection that looked so obviously meaningful, so clearly aligned, so full of possibility — and then watched it sit there?

No movement.

No meeting.

No follow-up.

No spark.

Just silence.

Three months of “maybe later.”

Three months of “I thought this would happen by now.”

Three months of wondering whether the moment had passed.

Then one day, the person with access to the platforms had a cancellation.

A sudden gap in the schedule.

An unexpected opening.

And in that open space, a thought came:

Call her.

Not tomorrow.

Not next week.

Now.

So the call was made.

But here is where the story gets chills.

That same day — the very same day — the woman with the healing message had started reading her Bible again. She had made a fresh decision to rebuild her relationship with God. Quietly. Personally. No spotlight. No announcement. No religious performance.

Just a heart turning back toward God.

And then the phone rang.

The call opened the door for her to begin sharing her story in spaces she had not expected.

Now, let’s be clear.

This does not mean that if you read your Bible, every deal closes, every sickness disappears, every bill gets paid, and every storm clears by Friday.

That is not faith.

That is superstition wearing church clothes.

We live in a broken world. Sin has consequences. Systems hurt people. Families fracture. Grief is real. Corporate sin spills over into private lives. Bad things happen to people who love God.

But here is the fire in this story:

God knows how to whisper, “I see you,” in a way the heart cannot easily dismiss.

Sometimes He reveals His love through a breakthrough.

Sometimes through a delay.

Sometimes through a cancellation.

Sometimes through a phone call that arrives on the exact day your heart turns back toward Him.

Jeremiah 29:13 says, “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”

Psalm 37:23 says, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.”

And Romans 8:28 reminds us that God can still work all things together for good to those who love Him.

So here is the question:

What if the delay you resent is not dead space, but divine timing still arranging the room?

And maybe the deeper question is this:

What choice would honor God today, even before the call comes, before the door opens, before the evidence shows up?

Because sometimes God does not announce His presence with thunder.

Sometimes He lets everything go quiet.

Then, when the heart turns back toward Him…

He lets the phone ring.