I work at a Christian school. The pastor of the church which established our school has a saying: “The LORD has blessed me so much, my cup is overflowing (taken from Psalm 23) and I’m sipping from the saucer.”
I like the visual, so I’m using it here, in this month-long blogging challenge focusing on the blessings God has poured out on me.
Today, blessing #2.
I’m not big on jewelry. Apart from my earrings, which I never change, I wear a watch, three rings (engagement, wedding ring and Hubby’s wedding ring) and a bracelet. And I only ever put on my watch, rings and bracelet when I leave for work, and often take them off on the return trip.
Cue my clumsiness. I was sliding my rings onto my watch band, as I always do, when something happened and I dropped my engagement ring onto the floor of the car.
Well, I was driving. Not particularly conducive to an immediate search.
So I looked when I got home. Kids out of the car; my seat goes back, and I’m there with my head between my knees, cursing the fact that the space between drivers seat and console in a Toyota Aurion, is so incredibly tiny.
It’s pretty clean down there, but I do manage to retrieve the odd receipt and some fluff. There a blue hairband wedged down there too – but no sign of the engagement ring.
I sigh.
The other rings are safe, with the bracelet, on the watch band. And – as per usual – I’m on a deadline, because it’s a school evening and there’s homework to get done and dinner to prepare, cook, eat and clean up after, prior to teaching again later that night.
The thought darts across through my mind. ‘Wouldn’t it be awesome if the ring was hiding under the hairband.’ I ignore it and pick up the hairband, preparing to excavate the depths of the cavity between drivers seat and console.
But no need. There’s the escapee – hiding under the blue hairband, waiting to be retrieved.
Less than a second’s worth of looking! And life was back on track, and the kids’ homework and dinner could happen on time 🙂
God is awesome. It was definitely a ‘sipping from the saucer’ moment.
Have a great day, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn