Don’t you just love the special treats Papa God sends our way to remind us that He’s intimately involved in every detail of our lives? I call them grace notes. My friend Esther recently told me of one of God’s amazing grace notes in her life.
Esther had been dismayed that during her only son’s wedding three years ago, somehow a photo of Esther and her husband with the newlyweds had fallen between the cracks. The photographer had snapped pics of family groups and friends and seemingly everyone there except the four of them together.
Esther was deeply disappointed. She knew that was a special moment she could never get back.
Fast forward three years. Esther turned a flash drive from their camera into Walgreens to retrieve some recent pictures she needed of the children’s Bible Club she leads. Because there were 200 pictures on the flash drive, the clerk told Esther she’d receive a free 8×10 with her purchase, and asked her to choose one. Esther didn’t really have time to look through all 200 photos, but she felt an inner nudge to do just that. Lo and behold, buried deeply in the bunch, somehow – no one knows who snapped it or when – there was a head-on, looking-right-at-the-camera wedding shot of Esther, her husband, her son and his brand new wife.
It was exactly what she had wanted!
In Esther’s words, “God’s grace sprinkled over me like Christmas glitter, saying, ‘Thank you, Esther, for being still to listen; I heard the desire of your heart.'”
What grace note glitter will God sprinkle into your life this Christmas season?
