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Learning To Look Up, Even In The Bathtub!


Hey everyone! It has been a while since I have posted anything. I don't have internet at my house, so I have to rely on Stephen's computer, and he has been keeping it busy when I needed to get on it. Anyway this is what I have to share today! The other morning I was running Anna's bathwater and couldn't find the stopper. I looked in all the cups that seem to live in the bathtub, I looked in the boat that is docked in the Beavers boys bathtub-marina, I looked among all the superheros( that must have been napping because they surely were not acting like superheros and helping me find what I so desperatly needed!) I looked under the washclothes that seem to multiply in the bathtub and all to no avail!
It was no where to be found. AND THEN I looked up! There it was! Sitting on the soap dispenser. Not at all where it was supposed to be, but sitting there all be itself, at my eye-level. I immediatly thought " Why didn't I look up?" And then my next thought was " How many times do I not look-up when I should?" So, I pose that question to you also. Are you looking up? or are you looking down? Is your sight set on things above, or things below and here? I get so used to the muck and yuck that it seems each day brings that I sometimes forget to look up and see the help that God wants to give me. We must choose each day to look up!
The stopper just might be sitting in the soap dish, instead of playing with the superheros in the Beavers boys bathtub-marina!!!
Julie

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