My mom pulls that god will provide shit all the time. Every time she gets in a financial mess, which is always, she absolves herself of any responsibility and says she's trusting god to provide. God usually "provides" by someone stepping in and saving her ass. Used to be her dad. Now it's usually me.
Reminds me of the joke of the old woman and the flood.
A river is overflowing its levees and flooding a neighborhood. An old woman is sitting on her front porch, watching the water rise when a neighbor comes by in his car and tells her she oughta' evacuate.
"Oh, the Lord will provide!" she responds, and the neighbors give up and move on.
The water continues to rise and the old woman goes up to her second floor, sitting at the window, the water lapping at the siding a couple of feet below the window sill. Two firefighters in a boat come by and beg the woman to get in the boat so that they can get her to safety.
"Oh, the Lord will provide!" she responds, and the firefighters give up and move on.
The water continues to rise and the old woman climbs up to the top of her roof where the National Guard flies over her with a helicopter. A soldier climbs down the ladder to save her, but the old woman refuses to leave. "The Lord will provide!" she says, and after a while, for his own safety, the soldier has to leave the woman behind to save himself.
The old woman, of course, dies, and when she arrives at the Pearly Gates, she cries to God, "Why didn't you provide?!" To which God replied, "What are you talking about, woman? I sent a car, a boat, and a helicopter! What more did you want from me?!"
