Here's a God Story For Ya

Wow, do I love my sisters!!!  One is older and one is younger.... I really want to be like them when I grow up.  They are my spiritual role models.  I never bring a concern or problem to them without knowing that I will be wrapped in prayer right then and there.  I'm so thankful for them.  While I'm busy whining, pacing, rubbing my hands together, thinking it to death and whining some more, they are on their knees talking to the One who already knows.  I am wowed at what God does through them and for them.  I know He would do the same for me (and He does) if I would just put a sock in it and take it to Him instead of the things I do, like whine, complain, talk it to death and then, oh yeah, take it to Him.  Why am I the slow learner of the family?  

Anyway, my little sister Janet sent me this sweet God story that she had sent to a friend of theirs the other day.    I really wanted to pretend it happened to me so I could blog about it ( do all happenings turn into blog posts now?) but decided that that was no bueno so I'll just copy and paste and let ya'll enjoy it also.  Just in case you haven't discovered Magnolia Pearl,that's who Janet sent the letter too, she's the giver of the dress, check out her website, www.magnoliapearl.com  Her clothes are fabulous and I covet them, I know, thou shalt not covet, oops.  Ok,  here goes Janet's story.  Oh drat, one more thing,  Liza, Beecher, Asa, and Ezra are her children just so you know the characters.

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"So a while back, my incredible sisters' incredible friend gave her an incredible Magnolia Pearl dress, which my sis then passed on to me this very weekend.  I felt really really cute in it!!  I wore it to church today here in Rockport and then I wore it around Fineviw (other sisters beach house) and my husband told me how cute I looked, extra perk.  I then wore it down to the pier and thought I would soak in a little sun for a few minutes close to dusk. ahhh. Taking off my new fab dress, I decided to bask in my cami and cute little underskirt, carefully rolling up my oh so fine dress to place under my sleepy head.  I dozed for a few minutes, and thinking I might be beginning to look a little like a roasted marshfellow, I sat up to assess the situation.  The moment I sat up, a gust of wind suddenly swooshed my beautiful new mossy green dress right into the sea.  SCREEECH!!  Falling 5 feet from the pier, the mossy green bundle floated momentarily, then dropped into the murky water.  Poised in my cami and little skirt to leap into the water to save my newfound treasure, I spied EIGHT (at least) creepy jellyfish awaiting my arrival into the water.  Aw!! I just couldn't make myself jump...I just couldn't.

So I yelled for Liza who brought the fishing net, along with her courageous brother Ezra who braved the large waves and strong current in his kayak to SAVE my Magnolia Pearl fab new mossy green dress!!  I watched the shadow of the dress as it sunk to the bottom without a trace. glug, glug. glug.  We searched and searched, dragging the net along the bottom, but could not find my new treasure.  Liza and I ran to the neighbor's pier, thinking we might catch the dress as it floated by in the strong current, but though we searched, that beautiful creation was nowhere to be seen.  wahhh!  I wanted to cry, but instead the Lord reminded me to pray and so Beecher, Ezra, Liza and I prayed that He would show us where that dress was in that great big sea.  We finally gave up after watching and waiting for half an hour.  The kids went back over to our pier leaving me feeling a bit defeated and a little mad about it.  I was telling God that I knew that dress was just a little thing, but would He please just show me a miracle to increase my faith and the faith of my children.  I was also praying about another issue and I just wanted Him to show Himself faithful so that I could SEE His faithfulness (which of course He always is anyway, whether I see it or not).

I decided (you know because of HIS prompting) to take one more look over the edge of the neighbors pier and as I walked down the pier, I was begging God to do something big...How could I really expect to find that little dress in that big ol' sea????  But I was also thinking about how the disciples fished all night and caught nothing. Then Jesus came up and said, "Throw your nets on the other side."  So I began to peer into the water on the other side of the pier and as I did, I thought I might be seeing a very faint shadow deep in the water, hmmm.  I summoned Liza and courageous Beecher, who jumped into the kayak and began to row out to where we were.  I was really sure it was my hopeful imagination, but Liza fished around with the net anyway, and lo and behold, just as she brought up the beautiful mossy green Magnolia Pearl dress out of the sea, Beecher rode up with the paddle and rescued THAT DRESS!! What an amazing God we serve!!!  His faithfulness is to ALL generations!  He showed me that He cares about the little things and if He cares so much about the little things, doesn't He care about the big things too!!!

And the neat thing is......I think He put those jellyfish in between me and my dress so He could show me HIS faithfulness.  I could have jumped in and saved my cute new dress...and what a great story for the Magnolia Pearl newsletter:  "Crazed Woman Jumps into Ocean and is eaten alive by Jellyfish to Save her Magnolia Pearl Dress!!"  But God wanted to show me that HE is faithful.  He wanted to do a work through that beautiful new

dress.  He wanted to show me that He cares about my little things and my big things and He has the power to make things happen.  He controls the waves and the current and controlled where I would look so I could see what He was so powerful to do."

Janet in the middle lookin' good in her cute little Magnolia Pearl mossy green dress prior to the rescue

Yay God, thank you for showing all of us your power and how you really do care about the little things.