GOD's Rewrites

 

We read and meditate on a couple of devotional tomes each morning.  This morning one was referring to Luke 12:22-34 where Jesus speaks about the crows and the crops of Daffodils, with the gist being “WHY WORRY?!”

The writer of the devotional was a puzzler and she and her husband were enjoying piecing a large puzzle UNTIL they got to the all green section!  After hours, or days, of frustration, she went on line to a puzzle group ( I would never have considered that there WAS such a thing as a “puzzle group!”) and asked for suggestions as to the best way to get past this frustration.   The advice that stuck with her was “one piece at a time!”

That thought just couldn’t have come at a better time – we were putting our floor repair PUZZLE back together that day!!  We had noticed a spongy spot in the bathroom of our HOME on WHEELS and knowing that the sewer tanks were directly below that area, we knew that it needed replaced, renovated, or strengthened.  We had cut the vinyl next to the edges of the room and the length - plus several inches - of the strip of stainless steel that we had obtained.  Prepared the steel by sanding the burrs off the edges to avoid damaging the vinyl, feathered the steel to wood space as much as possible under the conditions!   So next step was somehow FITTING THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE back together in the confining space – a one butt area between the toilet hole and the shower, and without damaging the existing vinyl OR the pieces.  Sure enough the advice of the puzzler and the scripture – one piece at a time, or one day at a time, was the Word for our day!   

I thanked GOD for the advice we needed by asking how many ANGELS He needed to rewrite devotional messages to fit the needs of so many readers in so many places?  That particular publication is printed in 34 different languages and read by millions of people - all puzzling over THEIR situations in countries all over this globe!  Mind boggling or thought provoking?!

I am happy to tell you that the project of our day went really well;  it did require two sets of eyes, four hands, and GOD’s peace and provision even in a small space on a hot day!  One piece of vinyl at a time!