A Hug from Heaven

 

Saturday morning, I was cleaning a mess that I had made on the face of my kitchen cabinets when I received a hug from heaven.  I noticed the uniform scuff marks on the lower cabinet doors that had been made from my wife’s wheelchair banging on them as she cooked, washed dishes, made coffee, and mixed cake batter.  She loved being in the kitchen and kept working even though it took her twice as long working from a wheelchair.  She never gave up, and she never gave in.  It would have been easy to get discouraged and quit the kitchen, but Kathy was a fighter and always did her part in our home.  I miss her.  Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.”

Back to Standard Time

 

Did you set your clocks back last night?  If you didn’t. you’ll be an hour early to church this morning ,,, which isn’t a bad thing.  I had to change 7 clocks last night!  And since most of them are digital, I had to run them forward 23 hours.  I have two three-hand clocks (hour, minute, and second hands) that I could move backwards one hour.  But then there’s my little battery powered backup clock in the bedroom that I use if the power goes off.  Since it isn’t lighted, I seldom look at it (only if the power goes off),  I never bothered to move it forward last spring, so it was right on time this morning with no adjustment needed.  Reminded me of the saying, “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”  Hey, like my little back-up clock, can the dear Lord count on you?  Are you trustworthy?  Luke 16:10, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.”  Here’s some good advice: watch those details!  Jesus said if you are faithful in little matters, God will trust you with bigger opportunities.  But, if you are careless in little things, God can’t trust you with greater things.  So today remember, “Attention to detail.”

Magnet

 

I’ve been making a quilt for a dear friend sewing at the dining room table.  And as I often do, I got too immersed in my work.  I heard an unusual noise, so I stopped sewing and looked around to see what had happened.  The creeping pile of sewn squares that were accumulating behind my sewing machine had pushed my pin container off the table, and 200 straight pins were now scattered all over the floor.  I was facing a considerable sewing slowdown.  But I had a clever idea: I got a metal wrench and a magnet from my collection and made short work of those pesky pins.  I watched with fascination as the pins were drawn to the wrench by the invisible magnetic force.  How illustrative of the blessed Holy Spirit.  But the Holy Spirit isn’t a force, He is the third person of the Trinity.  And, like a magnet, the Holy Spirit is invisible and draws us towards God.  Jesus told His disciples in John 14:26, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”  What a wonderful Teacher we have in the Holy Spirit!  He is quietly guiding and drawing us closer to God.  Hey, are you listening to the Holy Spirit?  Do you obey His prompting?  Why not listen to God today and, like my magnet and pins, let the Holy Spirit draw you closer to God today?