I was working one evening and a co-worker came and said there was a guest who wanted to speak to me. He said that she asked for me by name. When he told me who it was I wondered who it might be as I wasn't expecting anyone with that particular name. As I walked down the stairs and looked to the area where visitors stand when they enter the building, I saw a pretty lady with a warm smile looking at me. When I addressed her, she confirmed who I was and then handed me a card with my name on it. She said something but I was still a little bewildered. She turned and walked out the door and as I looked out the glass windows thought to myself that I might be in for a big surprise. I opened the card to find a beautiful and encouraging message of God's love and a very generous gift! I was stunned.....and just thanked God! He knows what we need when we need it. God knows my limitations and difficulties and needs. He provides for me in ways that I have trouble understanding. How can I be given so much? It is because of His superabundant love He so lavishes on His children. That woman and her friends are ordinary only in that they are redeemed images of God, like me, who are not worthy of God's mercy. Yet these precious sisters have lived their lives with gratitude toward the One who saved them and they are a testimony to the greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
JM