Glittery Goo

It was the school pick up. I had collected my granddaughters,

given them the obligatory, embarrassing granny-hug, and driven

them safely back to their home. Soon we started to plan ways

of amusing ourselves for the next few hours.

‘Let’s make cakes Nanny’ was the suggestion, which sounded like a lip-smacking idea!

We started to hunt for ingredients, one by one, until the youngest piped up. ‘Hey’! she said, her voice filled with youthful authority and authority: ‘I’ve got the best idea in the world’!

She fetched the stepstool, positioned it carefully, hopped on, and reached up to the tallest cupboard. She rummaged away in the cake decorations on the top shelf, until, suddenly, I heard a voice of dismay! There, beside her, stretching far and wide across the kitchen floor, lay a shiny, sparkly carpet of green, cake-glitter. What a mess! Then in her matter-of-fact way she said:

‘Oops I didn’t have the best idea in the world after all’!

Often, it may feel like we have the greatest of ideas, but when we carry them out, we discover it isn’t such a great idea after all, leaving us feeling foolish, idiotic, or regretful. Joseph’s brothers made a bad decision throwing Joseph into a well, Abraham lied about his wife and Paul even persecuted Christians, yet, even so, God brought new beginnings and restoration out of foolishness.

Forget the former things, I am doing a new thing. Isa 43:18,19

Are you feeling foolish about a bad decision? It’s ok to own it, face the mistake, forgive ourselves and move on. God’s got you. Everything will be OK

With Love,   Rev Gill x.                                                                                          

What the devil intends for harm, God can use for good. Gen 50:20