HOME AT LAST

Home again after a wonderful vacation. Thank the Lord for traveling mercies. Had beautiful weather for granddaughter's lovely wedding on the shores of the Pacific Ocean!

Our church has weekly devotions at a nursing home down the street, and I was asked to give the devotional thought the other day. I used the Scripture in Matthew 10 about God seeing the sparrow fall and the assurance that we are worth more than many sparrows.

I told about the sparrows who built their nest at the end of our carport. What a joy it was to hear their chirp, chirp, chirp as they raised their little ones. Our house cat, of course, watched the sparrows closely through the windows. Of course, that upset the birds as they didn't realize there was a pane of glass between them and the cat!

Then when my husband and I returned from running errands one day, we saw one of the babies in the second family the sparrows were raising had fallen out of the nest as he attempted to learn how to fly. By the time Rex gently picked him up, he was breathing his last!

That's when the Scripture I mentioned above came to mind. I realized that as God looked down from Heaven and saw that precious sparrow of His, he saw my husband, too, since Rex was holding the baby. Not only that, but God had to have seen me, too, as I was right next to Rex! God saw me! How exciting! And to think I'm important to Him -- worth more than many sparrows, He said!

So I'll remind you, as I reminded the residents at the nursing home, remember, God sees you; He loves you; you're important to Him. And because of that, He'll take care of you no matter what your circumstances. For He has said, "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

And just how rich is Christ? You tell me!

Preacher's Kid