When You Get A Love Letter From God
On the fall day that he brings a red Encyclopedia Britannica to church for AWANA Bible club, he gets a surprise, a love letter from God. He doesn’t have a Bible. And that thick red volume of pages looks as close to a Bible as anything and well, he is only six. He shows it to me as he is climbing into the big red van. “Look, Tonya, I brought my Bible today!” I glance at it briefly but I am hurrying seven children into the van; into car seats and boosters and tossing papers aside and I think, “Is that an encyclopedia?” But I really don’t have time to worry about it. I really don’t have time to notice. All I know is that we are late and hurrying again He didn’t grow up in a household of faith. We’ve only been bringing him to church for a year in the big red van but this six year old is teaching us some things about God that we sometimes forget. Like, the fact that God loves us. I wrangle all these little ones into church and to their Bibl