The saga of the wallet on the roof........

In a moment of forgetfulness, I left my wallet on the roof of my car.  Then I drove away from the gas pumps.
You could ask, "What was she thinking?"  but I think I wasn't thinking very well at all.

A stranger found some of my credit cards in the grass along Route 11 and with the help of an employee at the AT&T store called me, searched out quite a few others and retrieved my wallet.  Ended up minus some real cash, one credit card and, well, of course, the wallet.

I know that most of you would have done the same thing (not left your wallet on the roof of the car, but tried to find the owner of lost credit cards).  It is what we believe people like us are called to do.  And you'd be right.  People like us do things like that.

But we both know that God has much bigger work waiting for us.  Work that will take some sweat equity or extra mile giving or even walking into something we know little about.  BIG WORK, because God is at work redeeming all of creation and we are the hands and feet and wallets of that operation.

So we teach our children to be thankful for what they are given, even beyond the mannerly please and thank you.  We step out and work for a cause that we believe is God's work in our town.  We open our wallets and give a little more to make something life-giving happen.  We are those people, and people like us do things like this.

So I went to the bank and took out a couple more twenties; I want to be ready when I hear God calling me.