HELLO ALL OF YOU!!!!

Summer is over - well, at least for all of the school age people it is. The temperature outside is not telling us that but all of the activity going on is. Can you believe it?

I want to share with you today a story, if you haven't already heard me share it, about safety pins. Now, me being the visual person that I am, God for some reason has chosen to show, teach me about Himself through safety pins. One morning years ago, I was getting ready for work and there was this safety pin on the floor. It was closed and I was rushing around, running late and I was about to just walk over it and leave it there but the Lord said, "Marty, pick up that safety pin." I knew it was Him and I said, "well, okay but I am running late". :) So I picked it up, put it on the nightstand and then just as I was about to walk out the door, my button popped off of my blouse. Right then I remembered that safety pin and went back and pinned my blouse and out the door I went. I did not have time to stop and iron another shirt, find the right one to match, etc. I needed to go. The Lord showed me right away, how concerned He was with everything about me and when He showed me that safety pin, He already knew what I was going to need on my way out the door. You see, I didn't have a bunch of safety pins lying around. I didn't even know I had one safety pin in my house. I want to even think He could have even dropped it from heaven that morning, just so I would have what I needed. Funny thing, I have never forgotten that moment. And to this day, I don't keep safety pins, I have one friend who we used to call her the Drug Store because we could go to her for anything and she would have it at work, but not me. I most of the time am digging around trying to find those things like that. Welll...God 20 years later is still showing me safety pins. For the last month it seems, every where I turn, I find a safety pin. You know what He tells me when I pick them up, "I see you today Marty", I am your Provider". He tells me "I am right here with you and don't want you to think that anything that goes on in your life is insignificant to me" So I am going to show up in safety pins all around you to show you that even in the small things I am there. Even in the small things.......

I sit hear just weeping, thinking, why do I ever doubt He is not with me.

I hope this encourages you today and to know that even before you have a need He has provided the "safety pin" and that whereever you are, whatever you are doing there are "safety pins" all around you showing you He loves you! You just have to look and pick them up!

Woo Hoo! Amen!