A Unique Gift

Hello there.

Getting back in the swing of things. Again.  Great weekend. So glad we were able to make the trip.

So, I found out this weekend, that my most loved dad, prayed with a coworker and she accepted Christ as her personal Savior at work.  That is terribly exciting in and of itself, but it also reminds me of what a great dad I have. 

He is so sacrificial and caring.  He always puts other people before himself and is genuinely concerned about the well being of others.  I remember once, when I was little, I was at my grandparents' house, and they had some of their friends over.  I very specifically remember hearing the woman talk about how sweet my dad was and always had been.  She was right.

You may remember, I recently read Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti.  Well, I wrote down this excerpt during that time because it was so powerful to me, and I was waiting for the right time to share it.  I think this is that time.

*A woman is praying a similar prayer to the one my dad's coworker just prayed, and the angels are bowing, near the woman, to God.*

They were silent, their hearts filled with a holy dread.

As in countless times past, in countless places, with marvelous, inscrutable wonder, the Lamb of God stood among them, the Word of God, and more: the final Word, the end of all discussion and challenge, the Creator and the Truth that holds all creation together- most wondrous of all, and most inscrutable of all, the Savior, a title the angels would always behold and marvel about, but which only mankind could know and understand.

He had come to be the Savior of this woman.  He knew her by name; and speaking her name, He touched her.

And her sins were gone.

*Then the angels were lifted, swords became a fiery forest and a shout of tumultuous joy raised- rumbling and shaking the whole spiritual realm.*

Doesn't that just chill your bones?  I tell you, I read this scene and cried my eyes out.  How amazing.  How precious that this relationship with God that we are allowed to have, can only be known to us.  Even the angels can't truly appreciate the bond we have with Him. 

That makes me feel pretty special... Who am I to have something that angels can't even possess?

I'm so proud of my dad for being obedient to God's will for us.  And so thrilled that he was able to be part of an experience like that passage, even if he couldn't literally see it happening around him.  That's quite awesome.

Later guys,

Aim