A grand gesture or a ... Gesture of Grandness

 

^{Mark 4: 39} He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!”Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

It happened after a long day at work, which was followed by a trek to the store to get something better for tomorrow than the water crackers and limp celery lunch I had today.

When I say I was low on energy, I was so low that I parked all the way at the end of the parking aisle because i didn't feel like expending the energy to park between two other cars in those little parking spaces.

 I rolled out of the car unintentionally forgetting the  reusable bags.  Bless the people who always remember to get their bags out of the car to reuse at the grocery store.  My mood right then was simply bad.  You know that mood you have when you for just a moment reflect on all the bad decisions you ever made in your life including, not going grocery shopping a few days earlier, so you could just go home.  Yes, I was in that place.  And then there was the bell that bell ringing as I approached the store annoying!  Ok I actually like the Salvation Army bell during the holidays, so I looked up and smiled and hmm the Salvation Army bell man was waiving at me.

If you know me you know I waived back like I knew him.  He kept his arms extended out to each side as I approached, he looked like a crossing guard or something.

Then I got it - He stepped out in the parking lot traffic and stopped the cars from passing by so that I could cross the street.  Are you kidding me right now.  I feel like a queen.  I went from feeling like a tired overworked woman to feeling royal.  And yes the cars did stop.

Some of you might say oh he just did that grand gesture to get me to give him a dollar.  I don't think so I believe God told him that one of his children was approaching and that she was tired and she needed to know that she was loved and she needed to know that someone cared and she needed to know to save her tears because she is not alone and she needed to know that she is a queen and that she is headed in the right direction and she needed to know that He would command even the winds just to love on her.

Take Aways! LOVE EACH OTHER cause He sure loves us!

Shelby Prayer

He said to His disciples, "Offenses will certainly come, but woe to the one they come through! 

Today I saw a girl a young girl, a beautiful girl, or maybe she was ugly I don't know.  She may have been black, white, don't know.

My online name use to be OhMoveMe@aol.com, why because I considered myself poetic and deep so I felt my name described my desire for my spirit to be moved. Ok, don't laugh AOL had just started up and I wanted to be cool.

The desire was true though, when things touched me like a God painted sunset, or the unexpected bright smile of a stranger, my heart seemed to grow like the Grinch and absorb all the humanity and creation that the moment presented.  I would store these thoughts in dark times and shine them in my soul.

Well it's been dark lately, really dark.  The girl she wasn't the normal light like a rainbow.  She was an intense slap you out of your stupor of self into the rockets red glare of the state of the union.

She held a sign that said the shelters are full can you help and OH She Moved Me.  She moved me because in a country of ups and downs and angers and fights and yelling hate racism anti love anti faith and more anger

This ugly maybe pretty maybe black maybe white maybe a con maybe a runaway maybe a survivor maybe an addict maybe an atheist maybe a Muslim maybe a Christian maybe a student maybe a nobody maybe an everything...

Reminded me to love greater and shine brighter pray harder forgive faster ... She reminded me to be human.

Her name is Shelby.

So I know this is so different  from what I normally right but it is what it is, no apologies just a request for prayers for Shelby and all non Shelby's too.