Occasionally around our house, one of us will pause to ask the other, “What are you reading?” or “How is your book going?” In fairness these are questions more often asked by me than of me. This little snip of information should tell who is more a reader and who is less a reader and you can draw your own conclusions from there.
During one of my wife’s reading sessions she had read along and, coming to an interesting narrative, has stopped to tell me an incident from those pages which she found particularly moving.
A little boy with limited capacities was playing at dusk one summer evening with his friends. They were chasing fireflies and he was having no success. An observant gentleman asked him if he believed in God and suggested that the little guy might ask God for help, which he did.
In just a few moments fireflies, which had earlier been ungraspable, began to land on the boy’s shirt. He lit up like a Christmas tree! Imagine his delight!
And what a stirring image of how God answers prayer!
The telling of this brief episode reminded me that there are realities and resources I can never grasp on my own. I also know that there is Someone who can send anything I truly need my way. It is no big thing for Him to deliver fireflies, summer nights or starry skies.
The things I chase may be as difficult to clutch as any other impossibility until prayer’s Answerer reveals it as a cresting prospect.
Tim Gramly
Education Pastor
SHBC
June 15, 2009
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