The Small Stuff

The other day I was shopping at Target trying to find a swim suit and as I walked to the dressing room this blue jean jacket caught my eye hanging on the mark down rack. I went over and couldn't believe that is was on sale for $2o and it was my size. I looked around and it was the only one left. This might not sound like a very big deal to you, but to me it was. You see, I have been wanting a blue jean jacket for a while and I have looked and looked, but couldn't find one the right color, fit, etc.. So, this was exciting because it was exactly what I had been looking for.

This post is not about fashion, but to share with you how God loves to show us His love through the little things He does for us, and if we are not careful I believe we can miss it. In any relationship I think we could all agree that it's the little things people do that often mean the most to us. It's a phone call to say I was just thinking about you, it's a card in the mail on your birthday, or help cleaning up after supper.

Many times I think we miss the little things God is doing for us to show us His love because we don't recognize it as Him. Some might call it luck, coincidence, or just nothing that I found that jacket the other day. But I believe that God knows the desires of my heart (big and small) and that He loves to bless me and give me those desires. I took the word luck out of my vocabulary a long time ago because I believe that when good things happen to me it is because God has blessed me and He gets all the glory, not luck or chance. In the same way, maybe many of the things we call coincidences are really God showing us His love.

This is something that God has really burned in my heart lately and my relationship with Him had become so much sweeter because of it. The past few weeks I have tried to be more aware and look for the little things God is doing and acknowledge it and thank Him for it. Let me share some with you...

~The last week of school I was sitting on the playground with another teacher and I was telling her how all day I had this chocolate craving and I really wanted some chocolate! A little while later this other teacher, who is never out on the playground, came out to ask us something and threw this plastic bag in my lap. I looked inside and it was full of mini chocolate Twix bars (one of my favorites!) She said, " Please eat it, I have had enough." After she went back in Robyn and I looked at each other and she was like, "You were just saying you wanted some chocolate....that's crazy!"

~ I love Starbucks coffee and almost every Friday I go before work and treat myself to some. It's great because I almost always have a gift card that someone has given me for my birthday, etc.. So, the other day I went to Starbucks and I used my last gift card. Then, at school later that day a teacher came up to me and gave me an "end of the year"gift and guess what it was....a Starbucks card!

Some people might say, "Come on, do you believe that God cares about whether you get to have Starbucks or not, or a blue jean jacket you have wanted, or chocolate candy?" My answer is YES!!!! He loves us and just like any good father He loves to bless His children with the little things we enjoy and that only He knows about, the secret desires of our hearts.

So, I encourage you today to start looking for the little things God does for you to show you His love!