Usually, you read stories about people who do extraordinary things and think, “Wow! I would never have done that!” Sometimes you read a story about someone who does something extraordinary but think, “Wow! I could have done that!’’ But you didn’t. And that’s what makes the story so extraordinary. Law Lamar has done something extraordinary. He listened to God. Only God didn’t ask Law to do something extraordinary. He only asked Law to do something that any one of us – you or I – could have done, if only we’d been listening. And willing. Which is, in and of itself, extraordinary. “Law of Miracles” is Law’s story. It’s how a middle-aged accountant living in a comfortable suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, found himself called to do something in a poor, rural county that was everything his life was not; a place where people had never had the simple things most of us in the United States take for granted. Things like washing machines and clean water and churches with Bibles and choir robes and signs out front. Things like sending kids to schools with desks and globes and chalk, with libraries filled with books and reading rugs for kids to sit on and hear stories. He didn’t always have a plan. He just listened to the people the Lord put in front of him. And then he connected them with other people that the Lord put in front of him. And needs were met, in very simple ways. The really extraordinary thing is, you or I could do this. Any church could do this. Most of these projects are just seeing where there is a need, then connecting that need with a resource. And usually that resource is something that someone else no longer needs and is trying to get rid of! Take, for example, school libraries. Wealthy school districts all over the country are constantly upgrading their school libraries, with new furniture and books. Rural schools with limited resources are desperate for books and desks and chairs, but simply don’t have the funds to buy them. A phone call is all it takes to connect the two, and suddenly one school has room for the new books it is buying while another is getting needed desperately needed “new” (to them) books at no cost. Law has provided over 200,000 books for school libraries throughout the Black Belt counties of Alabama. Or a family that lost their home to a fire and a bank that had foreclosed on a mobile home and needed to get it off the books. A simple phone call, and everyone’s problem was solved. As Law says, “Sometimes these things get done with two phone calls, before I even get out of my pajamas in the morning!” But don’t let the simplicity fool you. These are miracles. Law will be the first to tell you that he didn’t have a clue how to meet the needs that came his way. But in ways that can only be attributed to God – to miracles – lives were changed. In more than two decades, Law has seen nearly 3,000 projects completed with an economic impact ofclose to $8 million dollars. Yet very few people outside of the Black Belt counties of Alabama have ever heard of Law Lamar. His “Friends of Hale County” did not have fund-raisers. There were no annual banquets to raise money, no golf tournaments or walk-a-thons or letters asking for mission support from local churches or denominations. There were not a lot of stories in the news media or social media posts or celebrity endorsements or press releases touting this accomplishment or that project. In fact, the way Law has gone about this goes against everything our “look at me” culture says he should have done. Jesus, in Matthew 6, says, “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. …” So, this is Law’s story. But the really extraordinary thing is, it could be your story. Or mine. If only we would listen. Because if we do, we just might find out what Law found out. God can take ordinary people and create stories that are …. Extraordinary.