strangely dim

Yesterday afternoon my oldest son, Bobby, calls to tell me that he has misplaced his (10-day old) ipod Touch that he bought with his own money. He was sure that it had fallen out of his pocket in the parking lot of a local restaurant. He was pretty upset with himself and the situation.

My heart just broke for him and this loss. As a mom, I wanted to make it right. My mind immediately went from feeling sad for his loss to feeling anger over the person who I just knew had taken something that was not theirs to take. We called Apple and got a case number so that if anyone tried to register it and use it then it would flag it in their system and the local authorities would be contacted. There were other steps we would have to take on our end to attempt to recover this loss.

Tommy and I were on our way to meet Bobby for dinner at Chik-Fil-A. Tommy and I prayed for Bobby that God would help us find the ipod and that Bobby would not be too sad for long. After dinner, Tommy expresses his sadness for his brother's loss and tries to offer encouragement to his big brother. Bobby responds in this way...'You know Tommy, this is just a thing, a material thing...it's here today and gone tomorrow. You cannot hold onto it too tightly.' WOW...did he just say that?

I took that moment to add this comment, 'You know boys when you compare this what Christ did on the cross everything else seems really small.' There was total silence in the van and if you know my family that is HUGE. I was reminded of a wonderful old song that goes like this, 'Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in his wonderful face. And the things of earth will growly strangely dim in the light of his Glory and Grace.'

By the way, God answered our prayers. We found his ipod Touch but I assure you that we found way more than that in the lessons we learned that day. And the things of earth will growly strangely dim in the light of his Glory and Grace.