"JUST" A LITTLE NOSE GUARD

It was finally cooler. so I asked Joyce for a ride out to prayer meeting...it felt like ages since I'd been there. The road looked different too, a little blurrier...oh, that was my glasses.  In my accident, I'd completely lost my left noseguard, and now my glasses kinda shifts to the right.

Sometimes, we think we haven't changed at all, but one little act or attitude--like a little noseguard--can bring about a shift of perspective, and really mess things up, can't it?

Fortunately, there is an optician nearby, and Kinya sez he'll take me as soon as I feel strong enough to go for a visit. We need to be sure "repentance shops" are accessible and regularly frequented.

However, by the same token, we need to remember that sometimes, God can change HUGE obstacles by the smallest means. The tiny helm of a ship is used to turn its course, the Bible says. A spider stung and ended a powerful king's life. A slave girl was the way to reach a strong centurion.

Maybe God would want us to feel weak enough to "regularly and frequently" offer ourselves to Him as living sacrifices for however He'd want to use us. It could be He'd even want to use us, like a nose guard, in introducing us to a new perspective of things. Nah; June, you're stretching the analogy.