Thankful Thought - The Tap on the Window

SO grateful for the smallest moments which remind me of Gods reminders that He is with us always 

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This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Hello and welcome to Shine. I'm your host, Nicole Florence, and today we have a thankful thought. And it was really something very simple that happened this week. Um well first off I am extremely and extraordinarily blessed to still have my mom on this earth. She is 81 years old and you know in pretty good health and still um has that you know wisdom and that way about her. And I really love and appreciate you know who she is, not only to me and our family, but just the community at large, right? She's everyone's mom. And I mean that literally. I don't know how many people will come up to me and say, you know, she's my mom too, which I love. And you know, in my 57 years of being on this earth, you know, we haven't always gotten along or always speaking the um same love language, so to speak, as with any, you know, relationship. But you know, definitely as we have both gotten older in a different space and place, especially as you start to understand that you know each day uh we are not given, we are um blessed with, we are mercifully and gratefully given, not anything we have earned on our own. And the other day, um, so you know, I do have two sisters, but I'm the one that stayed home, and I literally live like a five-minute walk from my parents. Um, and I was dropping something off early morning uh before work, and I was putting it in their mailbox because you know I didn't want to disturb them or knock on the door. And as I was putting it in the mailbox and I was getting back in my car, I hear this tap tap tap tap tap, and I looked up and there was my mom, and she had been watching me, and she wanted me to know that she was watching me, um, as well as to say, like, hey, I see you, um, and she waved, and you know, kind of have a nice day, um, and and kind of a gesture of um, like I said, I see you, I hear you, I'm with you, you know, I've got you. And it was just such a uh beautiful moment and gesture that I I really truly carried with me the rest of the day. And for those of you who you know may have lost your mom or loved ones, I think you know you understand as well those small moments and how beautiful they can be and how we need to be incredibly grateful for them. And as I was also thinking about my relationship with God, with Jesus, with the Spirit, I was also reminded of the ways that he is watching me. Um maybe at times where I don't really remember he is, or maybe I don't always feel he is, even though I know he is, and how he will give us that tap on the window to remind us, yes, I am here, I love you, I see you, I feel you, um, I got your back, and those taps on the windows can come to us in so many ways, and it can be in a way where we are in a space where we are like, how am I going to get through this moment? Or man, I really need this today, and I don't know how it's gonna be provided for me. Like, I have no clue um how it's gonna happen. Um, whether it's a phone call or you know, financially, or that answer you've been waiting for. Um, and I think about how many ways he taps me and and stops me when maybe I need to not walk so fast. Um and I need to be in a space where I am more aware of my surroundings. He doesn't want me to miss the beautiful um place or moment he has placed me in, or at the same time he needs me to slow down because mercifully he wants me to not get in a bad place if I'm walking too fast. Um there are so many ways that he taps that window, so many ways that he waves at us that I am so incredibly thankful for, and I hope and I pray as we all go through our days we are able to see and hear those with our hearts and and through the Spirit, and that each moment that we are in, that we are placed in, that we walk through, are extraordinarily and beautifully made for each one of us. So don't miss it, and don't miss the tap on the window and the wave. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.