Thinking on these things . . .

I held a beautiful blue long necked bottle of Riesling , finally. I brought in all the groceries and all the stuff and was going to open the bottle and have a glass. Off came the wrapper revealing the cork. Hmm , I need a corkscrew... I riffled through the silverware drawer, nothing. Went through the misc. kitchen tools drawer: chopsticks, lemon zester , apple corer, turkey lifters, birthday candles...everything else in the world... Onto the Swiss army knives, they have corkscrews, I never understood why you'd need a corkscrew out in the wilderness but... Found two knives, neither had a corkscrew. It's now been twenty minutes. Got a steak knife. No use. Went online: "How to remove a cork without a corkscrew" Watched a video of how to do it with a screw, screwdriver and hammer: couldn't find that stuff either. Finally put the bottle in the fridge and sat down and admitted what was really happening: God was here in my kitchen. He was playing hide and seek with my c...

I'd gotten myself in a situation entirely of my own doing and now I was trying to figure out what to do. I had a decision to make. Throughout my years in churches I've heard thousands of prayer requests: I'd like to ask for prayer about this but I also knew that this really wasn't appropriate prayer material. There is great understanding and empathy for prayer regarding sickness or sorrow, difficulty or destitution, hardship or heartbreak. This was none of the above. It would be frivolous to request wisdom in making this decision. It didn't merit prayer. I was on my own. But there is a simple biblical truth and this truth encouraged me to bring it before the throne of grace - although my need was trivial,and even though it was a situation I'd gotten into that was totally because I'd messed up, I realized that... What matters to you ...matters to God. "Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you" I Peter 5:7 "...