Pencil Box: Because It Is 'I Love You' Day

A dear friend, praying for me without even being prompted, received a message with God's fingerprints all over it. The mandate was simple. Let bygones be bygones, and look forward. In this episode we sit with the strange, hard truth that God's commands are not always easy, Ezekiel ate a scroll, slept on his side for 390 days, and Abraham waited twenty five years for a promised son, and then we land somewhere unexpectedly tender. A broken pencil box from first grade, a devastated first grader, and a brand new replacement that arrived for no reason at all, except that it was "because we love you day." God showers us with these days more often than we realize. If you are waiting for a replacement today, for anything, trust that it is already on its way. And if it is not exactly what you were waiting for, it will be something even better.