One day late on a summer
morning, I suddenly remembered that I got up too late for work to pray. I found
myself thinking that I didn’t really feel like praying. It was a battle going on
inside of my mind. I was a transfer dump truck driver and I happened to be
pulling up to a pile of ¾” rock to load. No one else was around. As I looked out
the window of my rig at the pile of rock, the thought struck me that I could
walk up onto the pile and tell God how I felt. I also wanted to ask Him to give
me a better spirit about wanting to pray and loving Him more.
I climb up onto the pile and fell to all fours and
told God “I am ashamed that I find such an unwillingness to pray to you. I
didn’t want to come up here to pray to you and I don’t know what to say or ask
for except more of your spirit to love you more.” At that time my cell phone in
my rig rang, and I went back down to answer it.
When I finished the conversation on the phone I again
climbed up on the pile, but I took a different route. Again I fell to all fours
and to my surprise and blessing, right under my nose, was a nest of four eggs,
just the same size and coloring as the rocks. The rocks were pushed to form a
nest and no other material was used. Just to my right I noticed a small bird
with one wing extended and down. To draw me away from the nest, the bird dragged
the extended wing, pretending to be hurt.
Tears in my eyes, I raised my hands to heaven and
praised God. I thanked Him for His faithfulness and love for me, even as I was
unfaithful and doubting toward Him. He showed me this to strengthen my faith in
Him, to prove to me that He is real and that He is my God. What joy filled me
that day, Praise Him!
Joe Padovano hartknocr@yahoo.com
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