Is it the right widow?

I enjoyed Steve's last post and the idea of whether or not the widow who feeds Elijiah is in fact the widow whom God sent Elijiah to. One sort of concludes it must have been because she does in fact feed Elijiah. His question of mistake and call raised in me not only the image of the widow who is blessed by Elijiah but other call and deliverance stories. It is my contention that God is just as willing to utilize ignorance as willing obediance. We might be called to seek God in obediance but this does not mean that he must always lead folks who are aware. I could not help but think of the man who helps Paul after he is struck blind. This man is certainly not willing yet does it anyway. How could he know the miracle that was going to unfold? How could he possibly have known that the one who was most despised was going to become the greatest champion? He could not have known. Paul certainly did not know it. Happenstance reveals itself as God's will and this creates a bigger question, is all happenstance created equal? Just how active is God? Does God insert himself as it appears in the Elijiah and Paul story or is he always active becoming more active to lean on certain events and thus influence outcomes or is God always leaning (active) on all events and we only seem able to recognize it now and again? If God is always active it would mean that everything is miraculous and if everything is miraculous why are we not aware of it? It could be that we have become complacent in our awareness. If I no longer think life is by its very nature miraculous I become able to snuff it out. If I no longer think nature is gift I can cut it down. What would it be like to live seeing that the Elijiah feeding the widow and the Paul call story are not the exceptions but the rule? This in fact might be the very reason that the widow's mite is such an important story. She gives her all in expectation that she will receive because in some form or another God will provide.