Good morning…
89 cents. 89 cents. 89 cents. Plus my 25% Tuesday discount at Goodwill, since I am happily over fifty-five. I spent a whopping $2.00 on a threesome of aromatherapy candles, each with a uniquely delicious scent. One for the morning. One for the daytime. One for the nite nite. I did not know what would happen with my tiny investment. Within twenty-four hours the Spirit went to work, popping love through the soil of me.
My neighbor is going through a transitional year, a year of deep spiritual awakening. Often God loves her through me, and, visa versa, God loves me through her. Yesterday the Spirit moved me to write her a short note on a Scripture card, “May you smell God’s light, morning, noon, and night.” I regifted a bag, I wrapped the candles inside, and, amid the gentle rain, I walked the cheap gift over to her front door.
I snapped a photo and sent her a text, “A little gift for you on this drizzly day!”
Soon came her reply text, “Oh my goodness! That is beautiful. You truly know how to spread God’s love.”
As I sent back a heart emoji, I thought to myself, “It’s really not about knowing, it’s about simply allowing the Spirit to spread through us the seed-bearing love of God.” Cheap acts of love cost us very little, as God’s healing power expands to restore our souls.
The people who hear the word and receive it and grow in it—those are like the seeds sown on good soil. They produce a bumper crop, 30 or 60 or 100 times what was sown (Matthew 13:23, VOICE). God’s rich love organically multiplies in this mysterious way.
Now I begin to wonder, “What cheap acts of love might pop through us today, producing God’s bumper crop?”
…Sue…
