He carefully put one in his pocket and the other he held onto and dipped it into the juice as it passed. O Lord, may we all know the abundance of your love, that fills the empty places in our being and calls us to see in our daily bread the presence of your spirit. Sure, I said, and he returned from the pantry with a bar of soap. Later, as we played with the kids at Chuckie Cheese where Kym Marco took them to celebrate Aron, Kyle's brother's birthday, I kept thinking about how marvelous this must have been for these 6 kids. Only one of them had ever been to Chuckie Cheese.
Chances are, the family has plenty of soap.
But something about Kyle's experience, has led him to feel that there is such scarcity that he needs to beg for more. May you help him to know a life of abundance in spite of apparent scarcity. And may we at Westminster represent your generosity and abundant life. I have come to believe that God truly does love me. And whatever dire circumstances I found myself in the past were not brought on my God's indifference to my situation but rather my not turning to Him and allowing Him to direct me.