I love it when our son-in-law just sits down at a piano and starts playing. Those years of music training really pay off when he touches a keyboard. I had the privilege of being at his senior recital in college, and it was a memorable performance. After wards, there was a line of people up there congratulating him on that performance. Oddly enough, I did not see anyone complimenting the piano.
My friend Rick had a day he could go hunting. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find his glasses. So he grabbed what he could find—his wife’s glasses. At one point, he positioned himself in a tree, put those glasses on so he could use the sight on his rifle, and finally, he decided it was time to get out of that tree. He looked down, and said, “Okay, it isn’t far, I’ll step down.” Well, in his words, “I just kept falling and falling and falling.” He had the wrong glasses on, so the ground looked a lot closer than it really was.
One hour before our friend Linda called for prayer, she, her husband and brother - valued co-laborers in God's work, had just been in a serious accident - a triple rollover. Her husband, Scott, had been sleeping in the backseat and he'd been rushed from the scene with massive injuries. Linda was injured herself, but at least she was able to call. She commented that the accident had given her the opportunity to talk to five of the first responders about a relationship with Christ. A few days later, as her husband was in one of several major surgeries he needed, her daughter wrote, "Right now, Mom is sitting with a technician, telling him about Jesus."
She grew up in a remote corner of the Navajo Reservation where they spoke little or no English. Like so many Native American kids of her generation, she was taken from her home and made to go to a boarding school far away. The bad news: they forced her to learn English and forbade her to speak her own language. The good news: a dream was born while she was there. First, she was required to attend a church, where thankfully, she gave her heart to Jesus. Secondly, she read "Dick and Jane" books, and those books showed her a bigger world where, as she tells it, there were bathrooms indoors and lives where people did something other than take care of sheep. And she decided to go for it. She graduated from high school, then college; she's taught school for many years and, as a single mom, raised two strong children who really love the Lord; one of whom serves at our Headquarters as a gifted young Native leader.
Our daughter and our three-year-old granddaughter were looking at a friend's wedding pictures. And our little princess, who loves to get dressed up, asked if she could have a dress like that and be like the girl wearing it. Well, Mommy explained that someday Jesus might give her a man who loved Jesus that she could marry and be like the girl in that dress. Her reaction: "How about next Sunday?"
