Answered Prayer for a Happy Girl

Today something really neat happened, something that will show a little five year old girl that God listens and answers our prayers. Every night for quite some time now, Shelby has prayed for a trampoline. She's had her heart set on one. Adam and I kept telling her to just keep praying and God will either say yes, no or wait. We had planned on trying to get her a trampoline for her birthday which is in November. We did not know how we were going to do it, but we were going to try our hardest to make it happen. Today, our next door neighbor explained that she doesn't have a weed eater and asked Adam if he would weed eat around her house when he does his. In return, she offered to watch the girls every so often so we could have an evening to ourselves. Adam spotted the trampoline in her backyard. Our neighbor is a young, single girl with no children so he asked her if we could trade for the trampoline. She said she didn't know because she has little nieces and nephews that come over and would want to use it. After a while we saw our neighbor again and she said we could have it! Shelby was ecstatic! We explained to Shelby that because she kept praying and had faith that God would answer her prayers, this wonderful thing happened. We hope that these prayers for this unimportant and earthly trampoline will deepen her understanding of how great God is and what He can do if we keep trusting and praying to Him.