26 Feb 2021, Friday

 26 Feb 2021, Friday

Prioritized Daily Task 

RootsTech - 2 day program, 2021

I helped Debbie clean the house, dust and vacuum.  Matthew, Melodie and family are coming tomorrow.

4:30 PM - pick up a skirack for Matthew at 7902 Farm House Lane, Midvale, UT  84047 north of Sandy and west of Cottonwood Heights        phone 801-718-9937

I applied for permission to join https://www.facebook.com/groups/DNADetectives/                        It The group was set up by CeCe More

Email Sister Alexander McAlpin and Sister Amy Ballard                            Apples  A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night’s dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table that held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back,  they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly-missed boarding… 

ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. 

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination, and explain he is taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. 

He was glad he did. The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her; no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. 

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table, and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. 

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, “Here, please take this $40  for the damage we did. Are you okay?” She nodded through her tears. He continued on with,  “I hope we didn’t spoil your day too badly.” 

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, “Mister…” He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, “Are you Jesus?” 

He stopped in mid-stride…and he wondered. He gently went back and said, “No, I am nothing  like Jesus-He is good, kind, caring, loving, and would never have bumped into your display in  the first place.” 

The girl gently nodded: “I only asked because I prayed for Jesus to help me gather the apples.  He sent you to help me, so you are like Him-only He knows who will do His will. Thank you for  hearing His call, Mister.” 

Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing  about in his soul: “Are you Jesus?” 

Do people mistake you for Jesus? 

That’s our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life, and grace. 

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting scripture and going to church. It’s actually living the Word as life unfolds day by day. 

You are the apple of His eye even though you, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and *picked up you and me on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know..... "Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to see  beyond the imperfections.” 

*He paid the price in the Garden of Gethsemane and picked up you and me on a hill called  Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.