Good morning and happy Monday, I pray that your first day back to work, school, or whatever it is the first day back to is going well. Here we are, with a brand new day, and yet another opportunity to to start all over. A new chance to say, I'm sorry, I was wrong, or to say, I don't agree with your choice, but my love for you is unconditional. God's gives us new mercies everyday, let us be just as giving, and just as forgiving to others, as he is to us.
Gerald Smith
In prayer this morning I rested my head back on my chair and allowed my thanks to flow to the heavens I thanked God for the beautiful gift of the snow this morning gently laying on the greens of the daffodils that have decided to pop out of the ground in eager anticipation of making the yard colorful and bright. Thank you Father for the blue sky breaking way through the cotton ball clouds and a huge thank you for the sunshine that is taking place of the hazy muck. Father there are so many things I am thankful for each day, sometimes the bad is just as important to me as the good, thank you for showing me that every day I live I will learn, thank you for the lessons and for choosing to be my teacher. I ask you this morning God to lay your hands upon each of us and allow us knowledge that unless we are walking in someone else's shoes we really do not know how badly their feet hurt, we do not know how bumpy their trail is, nor do we know what battles they are marching off to...bless us Lord with compassion, understanding and love. I ask for strength, peace, calm and comfort for all in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
A Wink
We have all had those times. They are the times when one bad thing after another seems to crash into your life. Your heart feels bruised, your soul feels weak, and your body feels tired. Then just when you think that you can’t handle one more bad thing, two more bad things hit you from either side.
I was going through one of those times recently. I was driving home in a mood that would have had to climb 50 feet just to reach dejected and depressed. As I rounded the last curve before my house I noticed that my car’s antenna had smashed into a butterfly. Seeing that beautiful creature’s wings crumbled around it was the last straw.
Butterflies had always been special to me. My Mom had loved their simple beauty and delicate grace. Seeing them always reminded me too of her own lovely and loving spirit. Now I was going to have to peel a dead one off my car. After I stopped I walked sadly around to the antenna. I reached over, gently touched the tip of the butterfly’s wing, and lifted it away from the antenna. Suddenly, to my utter delight the butterfly moved. It hadn’t been crushed at all! It fluttered its wings and flew happily up into the air. It swirled around my head and then floated off to find a good flower to feast on.
I was left smiling and laughing with joy. It felt like God and my Mom had found the perfect way to remind me that I was still watched over and still loved. Squire Rushnell calls these moments, "Godwinks." They can be a coincidence, an answered prayer, or a second of great happiness that reminds you that God loves you and is forever one with you. My life didn’t instantly get any better after this moment, but my soul sure did. In that wink I was shown once again that God’s eyes are upon us and His love is with us forever.
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