If you do not believe that God is omnipresent (click for definition) you haven't hung out with me much... I seem to find Him in the silliest things to most people, but to me He is really there in the midst of those things... Yesterday I had another "hub cap" moment. If you are new to the blog and do not know about the hub cap, please click on hub cap to read all about it.
Anyway... I digress...
Yesterday I was cleaning out my attic... It is loaded up with all of my teacher stuff, and since my tree exhibit is coming to an end and my new teaching position is about to begin I was going through all of the stuff that would help me educate young minds at my new school...
As I was moving all the thousands of dollars worth of educational goodies from one end of the attic to the other, one of my nice Tupperware drawers fell open and all of these buttons that I use for math and art projects fell and landed in the itchy pink sea that surrounds my plywood floor in the attic...
Now you have to understand... These are not just any 'ole buttons... These are big 'ole fat buttons in the shape of stars, hearts, ovals, squares, etc... They are all different colors and sizes... They make 1st grade art projects really pop for a bulletin board...
My heart just sank as I heard them bang against the wall and land in the abyss of pink insulation. They seemed to burrow down in there as a mole would bury himself under a farmer's garden...
I couldn't let the buttons stay there... They were valuable to me... I needed them... I had plans for those buttons... I really didn't want to get all itchy over some buttons, but they were important to me.
So, I did what any good teacher would do... I sat down in the attic and began to dig... I found a few here and a few there... The work was tedious... I asked myself several times, "Can't you just get some more?" But I kept looking... I found what I think were all of them... I spent about an hour looking and only 2 fell down in the cracks.
As I sat there, digging in what I wished was cotton candy... God spoke to me as He often does... He will do that if you are listening you know...
He simply said Jed... That is what I did for you... I got down in the middle of all the mess that you were lost in, and found you... You were important to me, and I have a plan for you... You were worth it to me to leave my comforts of Heaven, get in among the mess you were living and find you... I love you, never forget what I have done, am doing, and will do!!!
Ain't that just like Him to speak to me there... He is so good to us... to remind us of His constant, unfailing, unmoving, omnipresent love. Look and listen for Him this week in the small, mundane, and what seem to be mishaps of life that occur. He is there, waiting to remind you too!!!
Have a great week!!!
1 comment:
I was kinda thinking the same thing when I dropped my baseball cards in that same pink stuff. I knew that most of them weren't worth 10 cents now, but all I thought of what they would be worth later. I just had to make sure they made it out and back to where I could keep them safe.
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