Brown's Daily Word 5/6/15

Praise the Lord for this Wednesday. Last night brought forth lots of showers causing the grass to grow greener and the flowers to blossom colorfully and beautifully. The Lord has blessed us with summer like weather all week long for which we rejoice and offer praise and thanksgiving to Him. I had planted several fruit trees in recent years, including peaches, pears, plums, apples, and cherries, which are blossoming with variegated colors. The lilac bushes are getting ready to bloom. The crab apple trees are about to burst forth. Flowers, flowers, everywhere we go. The Lord of beauty decorates the world with spectacular spring garb once again. We will meet this evening for our Wednesday fellowship and study at 6:00 PM, along with the children's ' ministry, and followed by choir practice at 7:30 PM.
  One of the hymns of faith we sing is titled "The Lord of the Dance". Early Christians wanted to say that when you think about God — and we all think about God, (even people who don't believe in God think about God) — don't visualize God just sitting there as a unity with nothing going on inside. Think, rather, of a glorious dance of love, joy, and self-giving grace, a movement and energy in the very heart of God from which has come all creation and to which He would invite us through the Lord Jesus Christ.
  Bishop Earl Hunt ( One of the beloved Bishops of our United Methodist Church )told a story once I never have forgotten, about a physician who told of a transforming experience he had when he was a young doctor just starting his career. He was on his way to check up on a patient who lived in a rather rundown apartment community. He pulled the car up to the curb and got out to go up to the apartment. A little boy was there bouncing a ball on the sidewalk, and the little boy said, "Man, that's a nice car, Sir. Where did you get that car?"
The doctor stumbled a bit in answering, because his brother, who was older than him, owned a car dealership. They had worked out a deal in which the doctor would take care of the brother and his family for free, and the brother on a regular basis would give the doctor a car. It worked for both of them. So the doctor started to try to explain and said, "Well, my brother gave me this car..." but before he could go on, the little boy said, "Your brother gave you that car?" "Yes, you see, we have this arrangement…" The little boy said again, "Your brother gave you that car?" "Yes," and before the doctor could say anymore, the little boy said, "Would you wait right here?" Then before the doctor could answer, the little boy went tearing off around the corner.
The doctor didn't have much time. He didn't really want to wait, but there went the little boy, and the doctor didn't know what to do. He kept looking at his watch, and after a few minutes the boy came back around the corner. He was pulling a wagon and in the wagon was another little boy, smaller than him, clearly younger than him. The little boy in the wagon had legs withered from the waist down.


The older boy came pulling that wagon around with the younger boy in it, sitting there with his withered legs. The older boy came pulling that little boy right up next to the car and said, "Joey! Do you see that car, that shiny nice car? His brother gave him that car! Joey, I promise you that when we get older, that's the kind of brother I'm going to be for you."
In telling the story the doctor got very quiet for a moment and then he said, "Years have passed since that happened, but I believe God has used that experience to keep me in His will and in His love. Because every time I have a decision to make with my practice, my family, my friends or with anything, I keep saying, ‘God, that little boy pulling the wagon, that's the kind of brother I want to be!'"
In Christ,
 Brown
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