Yesterday Ps Geroge shared a wonderful and touching story of the lost penny. It was a real tale of a pastor whom God prompted him to do something which all of us us would not do and it goes to show how deep Daddy's love for us. It goes like this....

This pastor stepped out of his car and he saw a penny on the floor ( American 1 cent coin ) but he thought it wasn't worth the trouble and he was getting into his age but the Holy Spirit prompted this pastor " It is still ONE " so the pastor obediently bent down to pick it up. WHen he went home, he put that penny into a jar on his dresser.

The next day he was walking in a shop and he spotted another penny, this one was hidden between 2 pots of plants. Now it was dirty and wet from all the watering but the pastor reached in and wiped it clean before putting into his pocket. " It is still ONE "

He was walking down the street and as he stepped on the other side, he spotted a penny on teh road. He waited for the traffic to stop again before heading back to pick it up. This penny was grim encrusted, it was beaten flat with tire marks. The pastor blow off the dirt and put it in. " It is still ONE"

For the next few days this pastor began to find pennies everywhere he went and he picked all of them up.

The pastor was at an airport this time and he visited the men's room and lo and behold, he saw a penny....right in the urinal...The pastor thought " You aren't expecting me to do that Lord? " but the pastor knew " It was still ONE " and he went and got lots and lots of tissues to pick that penny up and he washed and washed it with soap and water before he dropped it into his pocket..." It was still ONE "

Before long, the pastor collected 20 cents worth of pennies and he used that illustration to talk about the lost sheep and the lost son...

Take a look at your life now, before Christ came into our lives, we were like those lost pennies, some of us went through a difficult time with the tire marks of life running all over our body, some of us had a good life but in the end it was God who considered us as precious..." It is still ONE " as He redeemed us from the road, from the plants or from the streets....

This story touched me as I recall how God have such great plans for each and every one of us. He loved you and me that Jesus went on the cross to die for us. He saw the potential in all of us not because of teh talents that we display but because He made us.

This is all about the Father's love for us and I thank God for His grace and mercy each and every day....

In other news, seems like Ivan and myself have to come up with a song item for Christmas.....I'm used to be doing spoofs of Christmas Carols ( 12 days of Christmas ( local version ) was a smashing hit in 2005's Christmas party" )
Gotta think think think.......somehow the theme song for the " Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" keeps coming to me....for now lemme rest...

MoOOooOOoOooOOOoOoOOOOoooooooooo!