A Tender Moment Pushing the Grocery Cart

Recently I've been spending a lot if time at the grocery store. There's some thing exciting about all the possibilities on variations of foods that you can choose from as you stroll from aisle to aisle.

My daughter always tells me that I need to get a life, because most people detest going to the
supermarket. However, this has always been an enjoyable task for me. My most recent trip proved to be quite enjoyable. Any one who knows me well knows I have a fondness for nuts, the edible ones that is. As I stood in the aisle deciding on whether I should get walnuts or pecans I was witness to the most tender moment between a man and his son.

The two came along side of me and stopped to browse at the many variations of candy that the store offered. The little boy, who couldn't have been any older than five asked his dad if he would buy him some gummy bears. The dad replied, "Only if we get some swedish fish to go along with them."
The smile that appeared on the little boy's face was priceless. They had struck a deal on the purchase, they even made it official by shaking on it.

As they proceeded to gather their purchases the father said that they needed to head down the aisle where the milk was, after all that's what this trip was for in the first place.   As  we parted our ways I thought this was the last that I would see the deal making pair.

They had acquired several other purchases beyond the candy and the milk since our earlier encounter in the nut and candy aisle. The three of us were now in the frozen foods aisle. The gummy bears and the swedish fish were now securely at the bottom of the cart and there was no doubt about their purchase.

As the little boy stood along side of his father as he pondered about the brand of vegetables that his wife wanted, he gently tugged his father's hand to get his attention. His father said, "Yes, son what is it?"  The little boy, with his innocent face and crystal blue eyes looked up at his father and said, "I love you daddy."  His father looked down at him and took his son's small hand in his and said, "I love you too."

Witnessing God's tender moments is a miracle, they are often far and between, but for me they were between the frozen peas and the milk.  Remember, God's miracles are happening all around us, if we take the time to hear we might be surprised what happens in the frozen food aisle.  Happy shopping!

When The Son Touches Us

It was a bright sunny morning when I looked out my dinning room window and I saw my husband leaning back into the seat of his wheelchair with his eyes closed resting his head on the side of the garage, with his baseball cap and a pair of shades protecting his eyes.
He always has a total look of contentment on these bright sunny days, ever since I have known him, he has truly relished a sunny day. It makes me happy watching him find happiness in something so simple.

When we close our eyes and lean back in our spirits and take in the Son of Man finds that same joy, when we close our eyes and sup on this word. He stands at the dining room window of heaven watching us sink into his word just as my husband finds total contentment sitting in the doorway of the garage.  When I walk away from the dinning room window and I know that my husband will again find comfort and warmth on the next sunny day it gives me the reassurance that The Son of Man finds that same reassurance that we will continue to turn our hearts and minds to his word and seek the comfort and warmth of a living word that washes us and breathes the breathe of life into our very souls.

The Little Dead Deer on the Side of the Road

One morning I was taking my son and his friend to school and on each side of the road I saw something that caused me to think about God's ability to keep us close to Him when we stay in his word.

On the left side of the road there were two dead possums. These little possums were laying close to each other as if to symbolically say, "We have stuck together to the very end, together we have seen our last."  On the right side of the road there lay a young deer, he was alone.  There was no fellow comrades laying on the side of the road with him, his symbolic epitaph reads, "I have left the heard, here I lie alone in my last days."
The little deer had chosen to leave his heard, he pulled away from his hedge of protection.  He went his own way into the arms of danger, he had no brother to stand in the gap with him or to lead him back to the woods where he would be safe from on going traffic.  The little possums met with an unfortunate fate, but together they stuck it out together.  Isn't this what we often do when God does everything to get us to stay under His hedge of protection.  When we stray and go our own way we often endanger ourselves as well as others who might be easily led astray.  I want to stay under God's hedge of protection, there is peace in knowing that we have Jehovah-Rohi our shepherd who leads us in green pastures and makes us lie down.

I know what your thinking, that's a little deep for a bunch of road kill, but that's what's so profound about this, God uses anything and everything to keep our minds stayed on him.  By the time I reached my house I was fully praising God and thanking Him for the dead possums and the lonely  little deer, because in these mundane and a little gross things he kept my mind stayed on Him and in Him I have peace that goes beyond my understanding.