Welcome.
Please testify. In what ways are you "Blessed and highly favored"?
Any instances of extraordinary favor or blessings to share?
What happened this week that showed that you were a "King's kid"?
Thank you for the offer to contribute! Forgive my failure to recall and lower evaluation of this feature you have provided Father, thereby my lack of recall.
We here (spouse and I) in the community endure soft-persecution from the working middle-class around us. Even from other churchgoers on our street. Now when you begin to throw around things like God’s direct provisions and blessings of this sort which I have not lately, people immediately rush to comparisons and the reception doesn’t always transform an unbelieving heart. But basically, it amounts to open ostracization. Still, glad you’re tackling it here!
One that comes to mind is this day last summer which was something of a different nature and out of the ordinary, please understand I am never led to re-inspect the red-flag for pick-up on my mailbox immediately once in the house, but one day, some culprit’s repeat dash into the woods tried toying with me. For after lowering my flag found instant correction in return. It was not windy and it was not malfunctioning and never drops on its own nor has it since, but as soon as I got into the house, it was made clear to me to peek at it right away through a window to see for myself, sure-enough, it had been lowered.
So, I immediately went out to raise it and again once inside, impressed to look at it through the window only to see it had been lowered. Surely, the hooligan responsible came to differing conclusions that day than he thought he would. This happened a total of five times and not since.
But other items seem to careen to meet a need here or there till they begin to build in occurrence. You mentioned the weather. Here lately, a year or so, timing concerning conveniences to toil over my home’s landscaping needs hits several highs. Snow-blow detail early and soon there is a mid-winter thaw and dry-up. Wait without prior forecast knowledge and exert much less time on the machine.
Leaves are another thing that turned my effort into a third of what it would have. Without knowing what I was going to later do, I was impressed to drop the mower deck all the way to the turf bed and cut my yard to a stubble, then wait. Sure enough, this considerable wooded neighborhood sustained two days straight of heavy winds to strip the fall colors early.
What I found out was that my usual 400-500 lbs of leaf pick-up was reduced significantly when I again dropped the deck and use it as a 54-inch wide broom which shoved load after load all the way to the dump site. How was I to know?
I don’t doubt there are layers of this going on all the time and yours are quite prominentn while othe members of the body might give it a passing thought. Then again, if God makes certain grace to our benefit. He can certainly also make it known in the gentlest fashion imaginable.
