Strange things are a foot at the Circle K.....

Doesn't it seem like only weird things happen at your local corner store.  In the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure they find a time machine phone booth.  There is always drama to be found at corner stores because this is where people meet.  Now imagine seeing a talking donkey.  That would be a real money maker, but not in Numbers 22.  It is interesting that while the children of Isreal are complaining that they wish they would die than continue living in the desert.  God sends an angel to stop the donkey Balaam is riding on.  This donkey has been with Balaam for a long time and it is unusual that the donkey acts this way.

Isn't strange that Balaam doesn't even recognize that the donkey is talking to him.  Balaam is talking to the donkey all the while these highly esteemed people are with him in this journey watching this crazy man and donkey having a heated argument.  It isn't even a second thought that he would be talking to his donkey.  It is a conversation that is not normal but it hasn't registered that it is the donkey answering him.

Now he goes and never questions his donkey again all because of the angel that is shown to Balaam.  How many times do we enter into conversations that don't make sense all because we are frustrated or mad.  Not realizing that there may be something going on that we need to see and learn. This takes a relationship that Balaam and his donkey had but more importantly to be prepared spiritually to see the things that God wants us to see.  All the while He is guiding us if we allow Him.