Cassie L. Wilson

Learning to be the light

Feel that rain? Spiritual rain is a good thing.

Rain.  I’ve got a kind of love-hate relationship with it.  In the spring, a good rain can make everything green again.  In sweet summertime, a good rain is just what the doctor ordered to cool everything off during a hot day. Rain, it’s a good thing.

Really, y’all, rain is a beautiful thing.

But, it can also ruin a perfectly planned picnic.  Too much of it can cause major flooding with quick, sudden destruction.  Let’s not forget, too, how a little rain can ruin the best of hair days.  Ladies, amiright?

But, what about spiritual rain?

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Suffering for His Name

It seems that in the last two, three years those in my church that are involved with the Children’s program, and are doing their best to see it grow have been plagued with one illness after another.  I’m not talking tiny colds, either.  I mean major illnesses and major surgeries.  Suffering, y’all.  Suf. Fer. Ing.

Last week, I stopped in for a quick visit before church with one of our Sunday school teachers.  She has been put through the ringer with illnesses that seem to suddenly spring up.  She made a comment that my mother, who has also been hit with many health issues lately, and I have said between ourselves many times.

“Cassie, have you noticed that the ones that have an interest in our Children’s program have had a time with their health recently?  Me, your mom, you…”

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A Lesson: Consider Your Ways

Have you ever noticed that the smallest of things make the biggest difference?  You know, like if you hurt your pinky toe and then you have to hobble for a few days?  Or if you leave out the peanut butter from a batch of preacher cookies and then you’re only left with chocolate covered oats?  (Yeah, it’s gross.  Just trust me on this one, y’all.)  Makes you stop and consider your ways, doesn’t it?

It’s kind of the same way with the books of the minor prophets in the Bible.  Sometimes those books are overlooked because, well, because they’re small.  Some of them are only a few short chapters.  But, oh man, do those books pack a powerful punch!

A few days ago I was spending some time reading Haggai.  To be honest, I’m guilty of overlooking the smaller books.  Sometimes the what-could-these-teeny-tiny-books-have-to-say-that-the-more-popular-books-haven’t-already-said? thought runs through my mind a little too hard and too fast and I just skip onto something bigger.  Well, y’all, it turns out the minor prophets have a lot to say about stuff.  Stuff that is still relevant to a Christian’s walk today.

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