I help get my kids backpacks all ready to go each morning. I put the lunch box in for my daughter, remind her to put her homework in there, sometimes I pack a sweater. And of course, this is all done in a hurry and there's lots of screaming involved. But once she's all packed up, she has everything she needs to focus on her school day (with any help from above) Whew! Exhausting!
What a nice thought that God does the same thing for us each day as our Father-Mother-God. (and praises, he does it without fussing, stressing or elevating his voice!) He thinks ahead for us, collects our supplies and tucks it all away until he needs us to use it. And I have to imagine the stuff he gathers for our packs is different each day, because...hello...what day is ever the same?
Now, sometimes my daughter gets to school and she freaks out because she thinks she doesn't have her reading book or some crucial fifth grade document. Instead of looking for it, sometimes she'll take a point deduction from her teacher...when all the while, the stuff she needs is right under that sweet little nose of hers. And boy howdy, let's talk summer camp trunk packing for a minute. I pack the kids' trunk for their month away in North Carolina with EVERYTHING they could possibly need and then some. If it's on the packing list, it's in there...sometimes twice over. And every summer, my son's trunk comes back with many things completely untouched
That's kind of like us, I think. God packs us up real good each morning... He fill us to the brim with our daily utensils. And sometimes, when we get into a situation that requires something more of us — we have no idea we even have access to it. Or we just choose not to use it.
Today, my bag was full of balloons. Pink balloons. And lots of them. My department at work decorated for Sunday's 26.2 with Donna Breast Cancer Marathon. We lined the fence with them. There was pink EVERYWHERE. To some, we were schlepping bags full of balloons. But dig a little deeper, and those bags were full of support, encouragement and love. God packed my bag well today! As if he would do anything else but!
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