Thought So!

Fingerprints

My windows are finger-magnets for the small people who visit our home. The prints stop about 3 ft. from the floor on the panes (except for dog nose-prints a little higher up).  Our own kids are finally past the fingers-on-the-window stage—(I think).  One might expect that opening the blinds on a sunny day would make me lunge for the Windex and paper towels, since the prints are one of the first things I notice when I look outside.  Maybe it’s because that, if they are not bleeding, asking for money, or needing to be fed, I tend to ignore them.  Or maybe it’s because that, living here on the “wet coast”, I’m just grateful to have the sun shining!

If someone comments that either their vision is really bad or your windows desperately need to be squeegied, this next thought gives you permission to leave the windows as they are (just tell them it’s an object lesson):  each print reminds me that, if the Lord cares enough to make every fingerprint different on every single person in the world, He can help me with everything that I will put my hand to today.

“Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.”  1Peter 5:7

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Thank You…I Think

Our west coast (they call it the “Wet Coast”) winters are usually gray, mild, and rainy. So this year, when we received three separate dumps of snow, 2 major tree-wrenching wind storms, and ice that made it treacherous walking from your house to the car—all by mid-January-- we were ready for gray, mild, and rainy. Who would have thought we would cheer when it was time to get out umbrellas. No matter that the sun may not shine for three weeks at a time. No problem—we can deal with frizzy hair and soggy socks. Normally, we would complain about the drizzle and rain, but this year we welcomed it with open umbrellas.

Sometimes our lives have a gray, mild, rainy, and predictable feel. But, compared to what we see others facing, we can ask the Lord for a new appreciation for the seeming “ordinariness” of our days. “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” 1Thess. 5:18 Compared to what could be happening to us and isn’t …we can always find something to be thankful for.

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I’m Late!

No doubt there are some of you who have never been late to anything. Will you please stand.  You may pick up your trophies on the way out. 

And then there are the rest of us.  We have experienced the adrenaline high when waking to realize that it is indeed an hour later that our alarm clock said.  We are famous for dashing back into the house on Sunday to brush our teeth or grab our Bibles while the rest of the family sits in the idling car.  We have missed our family portrait appointment because we didn’t get the curlers out of our daughter’s hair soon enough.

If we are living when the Lord returns to rapture His children, we will go with Him right then—no dawdling or doing just “one more thing”.  That is one event for which all of us will be on time.

“Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:  for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”    1 Cor. 15:51, 52

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A New World…After the Flood

Did you ever wonder …?

-if Mrs. Noah ever began a sea shell collection?

-if Noah brought his tools and continued in the carpentry business?

-if Noah and his wife ever got stuck babysitting?

-if Noah had nightmares of being surrounded by wild animals?

-if Mrs. Noah missed her neighbors?

-if anyone in the family ever had a strong desire to go on a long trip?

-if Noah ever went on another boat ride?

-if Mrs. Noah ever began her own interior decorating business specializing in nursery/children’s room themes?

-if Noah ever quit running for the mountains when it would start to rain?

-if Noah, during his time on the ark, ever said, “I’m getting too old for this!”?

-if Noah was glad to give up salads for meat and potatoes?

-why the Bible doesn’t say more about Mrs. Noah?

-if the Noahs ever wished for the time before rain?

-what is was like to be the only family on earth?

-if, whenever Noah and his sons saw a rainbow, they were grateful that it meant they would never again be stuck in the ark with 4 women for 371 days?

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