HAVE YOU SEEN JESUS LATELY?

Several versions of a story have been making the rounds on E-mail lately. In fact, I've seen it several times. Maybe you have, too.

Seems a man asked God to show him what He looked like. So God sent a beautiful bird to perch on the man's windowsill. But he shooed it away impatiently.

Next God sent a cooling shower to refresh the parched ground. But the man complained because the rain interfered with his plans for the afternoon.

Then a beautiful rainbow spread its brilliant colors across the sky. But the man was too engrossed in his work to notice this display of God's handiwork.

And so the day progressed with one display after another of God's love and provision. But the man missed them all because he figured that if God was really God, He would show Himself in personal form.

Have YOU seen God lately?

I have. I saw Him just last week. Yep, I really did!

It was one of those days when absolutely everything went wrong, and I fell apart. I was so depressed I considered phoning my son in California who is a psychologist. Anxious to calm me, my husband, standing behind my La-Z-Boy, hugged me and asked me how he could help.

"Nothing can help," I sobbed, "unless maybe the cat would get on my lap." Petting a cat has always had a calming effect on me. But you need to understand that our cat is NOT a lap cat. The only way to get him to snuggle on my lap is to pick him up physically then HOLD HIM TIGHTLY. Keeping him there longer than two minutes is an unheard of feat!

But no sooner were the words out of my mouth than Tippy appeared out of nowhere, vaulted over the arm of my chair, and curled up on my lap of his own free will as though he had been doing that ever since we've had him!

"Did he hear from the Lord?" asked my astonished husband.

Yes, I saw the Lord. When I desperately needed Him, I saw Him in a cat!

After a half hour of petting Tippy, I became calm once more. Tippy jumped down and hasn't attempted to climb on my lap again.

Preacher's Kid

{P.S. We know now that it was a new medication, Roland, that brought on the depression!}