My friend turned me loose after hours one night in the store he owns. It’s a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store with all those flavors—lots of flavors. That’s actually how God feels.
So what’s a good investment this new year? Tons of people are going for gold. Its value is at an all-time high, but the process for getting to this precious asset isn’t easy. You don’t mine gold nuggets. It’s found in microscopic particles, mixed into the dirt. On a recent news show, one mine worker said, “You can’t tell by looking at it that there’s gold in it.” The NBC News reporter said, “Getting the gold out is a massive task. They grind it, treat it, and heat it until they can literally squeeze out the good stuff. They’ll move 190,000 tons of dirt a day; they’ll get a few thousand ounces of gold.” But here’s what makes it all worthwhile. All this produces a 90% pure bar of gold, and right now that is worth one and a quarter million dollars! It is, this report said, “…a precious metal, getting more precious all the time.”
At a recent parent-teacher conference, our daughter realized that she and our grandson’s teacher had both asked him for an explanation of the same creative answer on a recent test. When Mom asked, he gave one of his characteristically amusing replies: “Mom, there are some things that only one mind can know.” She cracked up!
Jesus said we all need faith like a little child. Sometimes our little three-year-old granddaughter says things that remind me why He said that. She’d been in bed for a couple of hours, but she was wide awake when her Mom checked on her. She asked, "Honey, what are you doing all this time?" That little girl's answer was immediate...it was striking. She said, “Listening to God.”
