On Your Mark! Get set! GO!

Ok here we go, 4 days of mostly sunshine.  Who would have ever thought that four days of sunshine would cause any of us to pause and praise but these are new times?  What can one do with 4 days of sunshine?  Do Good!!!  I believe that God is so hurt by how we ignore all His gifts that he might withhold a major one, His star (our sun), just to get our attention.  Gifts like how much joy all the sensor cells on the bottom of our feet bring us, think walking in grass, putting your old, hot, tired, dogs into a nice cool stream or what about your cold feet next to your lover's warm ones or even kinder, vis versa.  Who puts that much thought into the bottom of our feet?  We don’t even do that.  But Someone did.  And what about this glory crop of green magically happening all over the world?  Can you imagine making that much green, putting it everywhere and no one saying, “thank you?”  If you can’t; imagine you were the one that only put the new green on the trees in your neighborhood and none of your neighbors stopped by or even waved and said “Thanks neighbor!”  It would hurt me.  Or what about this one; what if it were your job to push your part of the earth a little closer to our (His) star so that Spring begins and you pulled it off, not every year but just this one and everyone you saw not only didn’t thank you but didn’t even acknowledge you, didn’t even wave or smile at you?  I am glad, and so should you, that I am not God because I wouldn’t be hurt, I would be mad and probably push the earth right back into winter…and if I could do that I would probably push it a little further so that all my neighbors would have icicles on their noses.  Maybe to begin my 4 days of sunshine I need to thank Him that He is God and not me because grace abounds to us all but abounds towards me—THE MOST!  WE have 4 days!  On your mark.  Get set. GO.  

 

My wife and I built this altar to God for giving us our first grandson.
Years later our family hiked there to show it to him and as soon
as he saw it he ran up and hugged it.  Knox Lee Benson.