Ask, and ye shall receive.

Or, as I like to say, "If you don't ask, you don't get."

Mind you, this doesn't always work. It would be more accurate to say, "You might not get it anyway, but you definitely won't if you don't ask for it in the first place."

This popped into my head earlier today, as I was perusing an office supply website instead of performing productive work. My predecessor left me some markers, push pins, binder clips, and file labels but no pens, scissors, nor a ruler. "How convenient and useful it would be to have some of these items!" I wished.

Then, as we were tossing trash into the roll-off this morning, I bent down to pick up a small, plastic bag of the kind that stores insist on giving you unless you shove your reusable, washable (though the plastic ones are like that, too), canvas bag of your own into the cashier's face. Anyhoo, the bag had brand new scissors in it, not even removed from the package! God is smiling on me today.

I presume He has the ruler and pens on back order.