Don't take my brick!!!!!

Good morning and what a blessed day this is turning out to be...it was a bit cloudy this morning but the sky is now clearing and the most beautiful blue is coming through....the mountains are standing all covered with snow and the birds are singing, all of this I see as I sit here by my front window watching the beauty that God has laid out for us today. Wow he really must love us a whole lot to get up every morning and bless us even when we don't deserve to be blessed! Lifting my hands to the heavens and praising his Holy name....Thank you Father, thank you for never giving up on me even though my head is hard and I am slow to "get it" sometimes....

This morning I was in need of a ride and the person who had offered let me know last evening that she would not be able to get me there on time today, as I was talking with her a lady I have not seen in a while texted me and in the course of our conversation she asked what I was doing today and expressed that she would love to come and visit..I told her my dilemma and she immediately said she would love to come and take me where I needed to go....what a wonderful thing God blessed me with, to send to me someone who was able in my time of need. I was so appreciative of her offer and sure as sweet sunshine she was here right on time to take me to my appointment. I felt so humbled and was so very thankful that she had taken time out of her day to help me. We enjoyed a little visit and were sitting here having a cup of coffee and just out of the blue she got teary eyed. I asked if she was okay and she said "you don't know what a blessing you have been to me today" " I have been sitting at my house day in and day out feeling unloved, and un~needed and today you have given me purpose" It touched my heart that God would see two people in need and bring the together to fulfill the need for both. You never know when you, in your time of need, will be the light in someone's life. God is so good. You know I love the saying...."Don't take away my brick in heaven!" meaning that when someone tries to do something nice for you you should allow it, for they are earning a brick in heaven for each good deed that they do....I first heard that phrase many years ago when one of my dearest friends committed suicide. She and her family had nothing and certainly could not afford a service for her, I knew a man in my church that owned the funeral home in our town and I went to him and explained the situation and told him how much I wanted to give her children something that they could always remember and the closure that would be so badly needed. The funeral director asked me to have the husband come to the funeral home so that we could make the arrangements, I had told him that I would make monthly payments on whatever it cost if he would just be willing to give this family a nice service. We got to the funeral home after a lot of arm bending and the funeral director began talking to us and what we would like to have at the service, we were mid way and my friends husband began to weep saying that he could not afford anything, I told him that I had made arrangements to pay monthly until the debt was paid in full...The funeral director looked at both of us and said there would be no charge, he said...."please allow me to do this with the love in my heart, please don't take away my brick in heaven!" that has been in my mind and on my heart all of these years. When I do something for someone else the only thing I want from it is my brick, I never do anything with the expectation of pay back, I never do anything with ulterior motive, I never give of myself for gratification, I only do it for "my brick" I pray that today when you see someone in need that you to will think about that brick, help them just because there is love in your heart, just because it is the right thing to do, just because Jesus would do the same thing....earn your brick today, the reward will come when you are called home to your beautiful brick home! I love you all, I pray for each of you, and I ask God to bless you in abundance and that he place people in your life that need you as much as you need them...

Luke 6:35 

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.