This morning, in an attempt to find a new view of the sunrise, I tripped over something I hadn’t seen. When I managed to move my skirt out of the way, I saw I had walked into a homeless person’s cup of water. It hadn’t been there yesterday although the sleeping pallet was.
Originally I considered posting a picture from our Date Night at Circle B of the sun coming through the trees at sunset…showing a small amount of light. My thoughts had been on the small rays of hope we find in those hours of darkness we all have somewhere in our lives. And how God is always there somehow, some way. But then I realized the lesson was in my morning walk.
And it sorta’ goes along with the devotional lesson in the Forward Day by Day : “God has granted safety to all those who are sailing with you. So keep your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. But we will run aground on some island. ” (Acts 27:24-26) The writer was speaking of a life of faith in which we encounter rough seas. The writer goes on to say that we sometimes have to get out of the boat and enter the stormy waters because God’s plan is bigger than the boat or the waters.
So if we’re not in stormy waters, it’s a good time to be a lifeline for someone else.
Sometimes we put too much effort into looking for special ways to do good in hopes of pleasing God when our answer is right under our respective noses. Be someone’s small ray of hope, that small light in their life, that rope keeping them from drowning. It might be someone you already know or ..maybe someone you have yet to meet.