My sister passed this on to me. You will surely be blessed in reading this!
Sharon
NOW THAT'S GOD
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It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in
almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The
creeks
and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that
would bankrupt several farmers before it was through.
Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of
trying to get water to the fields. Lately this process had involved taking
a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But
severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we
Didn't see some rain soon...we would lose everything. It was on this day
that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I
have
seen with my own eyes. I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and
his brothers when I saw my
Six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn't walking with
the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could
only
see his back. He was obviously walking with a great effort ... trying to be
as still as possible. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came
running out again, toward the house. I went back to making sandwiches;
thinking that whatever task he had been doing was completed. Moments later,
however,
he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods.
This activity went on for an hour: walking carefully to the woods, running
back
to the house.
Finally I couldn't take it any longer and I crept out of the house and
followed him on his journey (being very careful not to be seen...as he was
obviously
doing important work and didn't need his Mommy checking up on him). He was
cupping both hands in front of him as he walked, being very careful not to
spill
the water he held in them ... maybe two or three tablespoons were held in
his tiny hands. I sneaked close as he went into the woods. Branches and
thorns
slapped his little face, but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much
higher purpose. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site.
Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I
almost screamed for him to get away. A huge buck with elaborate antlers was
dangerously close. But the buck did not threaten him...he didn't even move
as Billy knelt down. And I saw a tiny fawn lying on the ground; obviously
suffering
from dehydration and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap
up the water cupped in my beautiful boy's hand. When the water was gone,
Billy
jumped up to run back to the house and I hid behind a tree.
I followed him back to the house to a spigot to which we had shut off the
water. Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle began to creep
out.
He knelt there, letting the drip, drip slowly fill up his makeshift "cup,"
as the sun beat down on his little back. And it came clear to me: The
trouble
he had gotten into for playing with the hose the week before. The lecture he
had received about the importance of not wasting water. The reason he didn't
ask me to help him. It took almost twenty minutes for the drops to fill his
hands. When he stood up and began the trek back, I was there in front of
him.
His little eyes just filled with tears. "I'm not wasting," was all he said.
As he began his walk, I joined him...with a small pot of water from the
kitchen.
I let him tend to the fawn. I stayed away. It was his job. I stood on the
edge of the woods watching the most beautiful heart I have ever known
working
so hard to save another life. As the tears that rolled down my face began to
hit the ground, other drops...and more drops...and more suddenly joined
them.
I looked up at the sky. It was as if God, himself, was weeping with pride.
Some will probably say that this was all just a huge coincidence. Those
miracles don't really exist. That it was bound to rain sometime. And I can't
argue
with that... I'm not going to try. All I can say is that the rain that came
that day saved our farm...just like the actions of one little boy saved
another.
I don't know if anyone will read this...but I had to send it out. To honor
the memory of my beautiful Billy, who was taken from me much too soon... But
not before showing me the true face of God, in a little, sunburned body.
*~THAT'S GOD ~*
Have you ever been just sitting there and all of a sudden you feel like
doing something nice for someone you care for?
THAT'S GOD! He speaks to you through the Holy Spirit
Have you ever been down and out and nobody seems to be around for you to
Talk to?
THAT'S GOD! He wants you to speak to Him.
Have you ever been thinking about somebody that you haven't seen in a long
time and then next thing you know you see them or receive a phone call from
them?
THAT'S GOD! There's no such thing as coincidence.
Have you ever received something wonderful that you didn't even ask for,
like money in the mail, a debt that had mysteriously been cleared, or a
coupon
to a department store where you had just seen something you wanted, but
couldn't afford.
THAT'S GOD... He knows the desires of your heart.
Have you ever been in a situation and you had no clue how it is going to get
better, but now you look back on it?
THAT'S GOD! He passes us through tribulation to see a brighter day.
NOW THAT'S GOD!!!!!!!
Don't tell GOD how Big your storm is.
Tell the storm how Big your GOD is!
HAVE A BLESSED DAY
GOD LOVES YOU
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