Sometimes it helps to have some little things happen to brighten your day when you're not feeling up to par. Monday morning I was awakened by a text message. It turns out my wife and I had overslept enough that we were going to be hard-pressed to get to our respective schools on time. The text was from one of our parishioners, who sent me a scripture, Colossians 1:9-13: "9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves." That certainly helped my day go more smoothly.
This morning, as I was looking for an extra box to use from my art room closet, I found the little clay cross in the picture above. I haven't seen that cross for years, and I don't really know where it came from. I think it was a Christmas ornament given to me long ago. How it came to be in my art room closet at the bottom of a junk box, I don't know, but I'm glad to have found it. I normally carry a small wooden cross I got on a recent REC weekend, but today I've added this larger, more substantial one. It helps to have this constant reminder in my pocket, that Jesus is with me wherever I go and whatever I do.
To be awakened with scripture when oversleeping one morning, then to find a beautiful little cross the next morning--that's quite a nice little serendipity.
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