On
many occasions when Jesus would teach the people, he chose very simple, down to
earth, easily understood stories. We call them parables, yet they are earthly
stories with heavenly messages. What is
your story around the recent winter storm that took Birmingham and surrounding
areas by surprise? If your experience were a big test, what is your big story?
What heavenly message did you glean from your story?
This
is my story, though only a small part of it.
We are interconnected, whether we want to be or not. Being one with God makes us one with all
God's people. Into late afternoon on
that Tuesday, the Family Care Center at The Guiding Light Church had three
adult day care clients and 25 children in child care whose caregivers and
parents had not arrived to pick them up.
We had program directors and staff who forgot about themselves and
remained to serve wherever needed and to do whatever needed to be done.
When a church member had been involved in an accident which totaled the car she
was driving, the policeman attempted to carry her home but the road was
barricaded. Unless she had another place to go, he offered to leave her at a
service station. She quickly thought and
called the church on my office phone.
Our All Knowing God had me (who spent little time in my office and even
less answering my office phone) in place to receive her call, and to say
"we're here, come on." Only God could have orchestrated the perfect
timing for her call.
The
mother of a young infant left work in Lincoln around 10:00 a.m. By late evening, her husband resigned himself
to the fact that neither of them would be able to get there. We assured both of
them that all was well, and the baby would be fine even though he had been given
his last bottle. By the grace
of God, this determined mother arrived 12 hours later, picked up her baby and
then made it safely home.
A
husband, with his son and another teen, left his job at Shades Mountain
Christian School before noon coming to the church to pick up his wife. They arrived at 2:30 a.m. after having made
only one 30 minute stop. With God's favor,
nothing is impossible, no road is impassable.
"This
is my story, this is my song;
Praising my Savior all the day long."
(from the hymn Blessed Assurance)
