An inconvenient adventure

My son and I were on our way to a hunting expedition.   We were stopped at a small town gas station in Illinois, in the middle of the night.  The trailor had blown a fuse and we had lost our tail lights.  As he went through the fuses looking for the bad apple he talked out loud. ‘It’s not this one,’ he said as he peered over a flashlight. As we neared the end of the fuses in the fuse box he spoke again, ‘God, I could use some help finding this fuse,’ he said.   Almost immediately a man and his son walked out of the shadows. After engaging in small talk the man said, ‘Have you thought of looking under the hood? There is often a fuse box there as well.’  Up went the hood and a new fuse box with the offending fuse was immediately discovered, and replaced.   As we went on our way down the road, toward a successful :)hunt, I found myself in wonder at how God had responded to a simple prayer and met the need of the moment. This is indeed a God-drenched world.  He is everywhere up to good. Haven't you seen it too?

A work of art

The ‘Pickers’ got a call from their old friend Joe who saw a ‘Von Dutch’    motorcycle that might be the XANW. The XANW was a custom motorcycle built by the legendary Kenny Howard himself in 1966.  If Elvis was the King of rock and roll, Kenny was the king of pin stripers.  The XANW had a Volkswagen motor, a Honda 450 gas tank and was built on a 1942 Harley XA frame.  It was a one of a kind. Joe thought he’d seen it, the original.  When the ‘Pickers’ tracked down their leads, they found a Von Dutch motorcycle in a shed, on a farm, in North Carolina.  Sure enough, it had the Von Dutch name etched by hand on the motor.  They paid $21,000 for a bike with flat tires that didn’t run. They commented that when all the lines lit up - they’d found a treasure. 

Made me think about how God is the master craftsman who is working his grand strategy in this world. He is drawing people to himself and each one of us has a bit part. It is his work not ours! We humbly and happily persist, even though we don't know how God is going to use what we have to offer! We offer a smile, encourage with a word or a gift, help where we can. When it all comes together - the grid lights up like a Christmas tree. Each one does his part but God is crafting a work of art.  Read about it in I Corinthians 3:7!