The few days before the next paycheck are always the most challenging and stressful, when it comes to preparing meals and to packing school lunches. The dinner table holds an array of leftovers, at times, but I've also been known to throw together some really odd combinations. The kids have opened their lunches to find a bag of mini marshmallows, a pickle, or saltine crackers. It gets really weird! Everyone breathes a grateful sigh of relief when we can finally go grocery shopping and get real food. I don't blame them at all.
This morning I popped a big bowl of salty buttery popcorn to add to their school lunch. It was a whim that just spontaneously tranformed into an act before I even really though about it. Almost like it was the Holy Spirit prompting, "Feed My children." I didn't argue, anyway. The kids were stoked and now I can allow myself the hopeful vision of my kids sharing their crunchy morsels of fluff with their friends, who are probably unfairly burdened with preservative-laden snackables and other processed packages of yuck. I want them to share, because they are just really good kids, and I'm that really cool mom!
Which reminds me of how God has always covered for me whenever I have only leftovers to work with, scraps of offerings to give, and really disjointed ideas because it's just been that kind of day, week, or month. God shows me that whatever I do isn't a big deal and He uses even tiny little things like a bit of time, a kind word, or even a simple prayer, and transforms it, like those hard yellow kernels of pocorn, into something exciting, fun, and totally yummy...in a fruit of the Spirit kind of yummy way. That's His grace and I am so thankful for it. And popcorn, I really thank God for popcorn!
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