How God Uses Mistakes

Today, I was reminded about how God uses us and all our mistakes if we allow Him to!  I ordered the last of the books to start homeschool, September 3rd and the card would not work. I was frustrated, upset, aggravated and just plain tired. Honestly, I'm scared of the time I don't have and now I'm using that "time" to ensure my children's education. The credit card wouldn't go through. I checked the error, AVS error, I had used the wrong billing address, I guess it has never been changed. What I didn't realize was I used the wrong card. It went through, though no money was in that account. Thankfully it was one of those fake debit holds that doesn't debit the account until they actually ship the stuff, so no fees for this bozo! But when we checked that account it said we had almost $1,500 that was being spent . . . HUH? No, we don't have that much and no I did not order that much. I kept thinking the AVS error was me putting in the wrong card number. Oops. It was me putting in the wrong billing address, so I kept retyping in the card number . . . 15 times! So I quick called the company, scared and nervous. As I was calling them, in my nervous state, my true heart was revealed. It was not pretty. I said, "This is why we shouldn't be homeschooling I'm too dumb to do this!" No one was around, so I felt pretty good about saying it audibly. A thought crossed my head. A thing a professor asked me in college once that has NEVER left me, "What is it gonna take to stop you from doing God's will?" My husband wants us to homeschool, that is God's will for our lives right now. Was I really gonna let this little thing stop me? Wow! I stopped and asked God to help me and to forgive me. Thankfully I was put on hold during this time. Then a man came on the phone and assured me that everything was going to be ok. Their system debits accounts and takes the money out when it ships but that I only had 1 order shipping, not 15. I figured since I had him on the phone I would ask some questions. I asked him if I had ordered the right stuff because instead of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. they name their stuff Primer, Alpha, Beta. I thought Primer was preschool and Beta was 1st, turns out Beta is 2nd. I had ordered the wrong stuff! He was able to quick change that for me. Now see, If I hadn't made the mistake, I would have gotten the wrong stuff, thought my child was stupid because I was trying to make her do stuff that was beyond her, and I would have really been in a mess, but God had other plans. When going through life and a mess comes up, look to see how God is going to use it for Him and for our good!