By Carol Colvin

My favorite experience with the Law of Vibration has to do with three things I told myself I didn’t want—but secretly did—and how I got on the right vibration to receive them.

The year was 1989. Gary and I were renting a skinny two-bedroom townhouse squeezed between two other skinny townhouses in Everett, Washington. Our boys were 4 and 2, Gary was working long hours selling medical software, and I was juggling church responsibilities, parenting, household duties, and teaching piano lessons. Money was tight.

There were a few things I thought would make life easier, but since I didn’t see any realistic way to get them, I convinced myself I didn’t really want them. First on that list? A microwave. Sure, it would make dinners quicker—but I told myself it was for people with more money than brains. I was smart enough to do things the old-fashioned way.

Second? A VCR. Back then, if you wanted to control what came on the TV, you needed one. I figured it would be nice to have something to keep the boys entertained while I made dinner (slowly, on the stove…), but again—I was a good mom, right? I could find other ways to occupy them.

And the third? A house. I was tired of apartment life and neighbors six inches away complaining about the noise of two little boys. But we had no savings and couldn’t buy a home without a down payment. So I shut that dream down too.

One day I vented all of this to my mom. I told her I felt guilty even wanting more than I had, let alone asking God for what seemed frivolous. I thought I should just be content. What she said next changed everything:
She told me, “God not only wants to meet our needs—He delights in giving us the desires of our hearts.” She encouraged me to have faith and ask.

That night, I made a decision. I asked God—specifically—for a microwave, a VCR, and a house. I imagined receiving them with excitement. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the Law of Vibration, but I had unknowingly activated it.

Just a few days later, one of my adult piano students came for her lesson with bad news: her husband had been laid off, so they couldn’t afford lessons for a while. But she had an idea. She had noticed I didn’t have a microwave—and she had two. Would I be interested in trading lessons for one of them?

My heart skipped a beat. I almost laughed. Of course I said yes—and as I said a grateful prayer that night, I told God, “I saw what you did there. Pretty clever…” I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next.

Not long after, our neighbor Chuck, an insurance agent, knocked on our door. He and his family had gone to a company picnic that day and won a VCR in a raffle. “Now we have two,” he said. “Would you like our old one?”

I nearly shouted, “YES!”

Now we had a microwave and a VCR—both things I had spent months pretending I didn’t want… and both had come to us, unexpectedly, for free. That night, I prayed with overwhelming gratitude. But when it came to asking again—for a house—I hesitated. That felt like a much bigger ask. Still, I couldn’t deny what had just happened. So I held onto faith and began imagining myself in a home where my neighbors couldn’t communicate by pounding on our shared wall.

Less than a month later, my brother-in-law Bryan called. A tech genius who’d made millions creating a joystick for the original Apple computer, he had an unusual request:
“Would you guys be willing to borrow $20,000 from me so I can write it off on my taxes? There’s just one condition—you have to use it to buy a house.”

What!?

I thought my heart would explode from joy. Six months later, we moved into our first real home.

This whole experience taught me something I’ll never forget:
When I want something good, and I ask in faith, and I get myself on the right vibration to receive it, God delights in giving it to me.

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