…make lemonade! 🙂
My son, the entrepreneur, decided he didn’t like not having his own money so he decided to find what he could sell in our house. I stopped him before he made it out the door with all of our chips, water bottles, cookies, etc that are meant for lunches and told him it would be cheaper for all of us if he would just sell lemonade. He tried to argue that he could make more if he could sell the goods in his hands…but I won the fight. He made the sign, the lemonade, got the cups, found some packages of unopened candy canes that I relented in allowing him to sell as well and with my help setting up the table he was good to go.
Can you believe he made the average minimum wage per hour (in today’s market) selling on the corner of our street? He is as happy as a cow on Friday’s during Lent! What I enjoyed was hearing the few customers that stopped by encourage him and give him that ‘ada boy’ for doing something on his own. One man stopped and gave him a $1 just for making the effort.
This is why I can truly understand God’s instruction to ‘love one another’. Hearing this from total strangers sets my heart ablaze with love for our neighbors. Yes, I know, there are those ‘rotten eggs’ that can sometimes really stink it up but I just have to believe that somewhere within them, being that God created them and loves them just the same, that they long to be good and decent again.
I’m writing this early because I’m about to be with a large community of believers tonight and I won’t get home till late. Oh! And I just have to share my little ‘kiss from God’ this morning. If you read yesterday’s blog you’ll know that I couldn’t get the hymn ‘To You, Oh Lord, I lift up my soul, oh my God.” out of my mind. This morning as I was reading over the mornings readings and read the psalm guess what it was???
Psalm 86: 1-7
- A prayer of David. 1 Hear me, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and oppressed.
- 2
- Preserve my life, for I am loyal; save your servant who trusts in you.
- 3
- You are my God; pity me, Lord; to you I call all the day.
- 4
- Gladden the soul of your servant; to you, Lord, I lift up my soul.
- 5
- Lord, you are kind and forgiving, most loving to all who call on you.
- 6
- LORD, hear my prayer; listen to my cry for help.
- 7
- In this time of trouble I call, for you will answer me.
*sigh*
I just love it when He does that. 🙂
Now remember, God brings good out of everything…even a bitter tasting lemon.
Blessings
Shannon