I love when God says the same thing in multiple ways until you just have to listen!! It had been a roller coaster week, both busy wise and emotion wise. Last Thursday, I was at my end emotionally and a teddybear kleenex commercial could have sent me to tears!
As I was leaving for a BBQ, my very good friend Melissa shared that I was precious to her and she would always have time for me. Well, let me tell you, the waterworks opened up! I hadn’t realized the depth of that statement. I had been feeling anything but precious that day and that spoke to my heart like nothing I had ever heard. As I reflected on that statement, I thought of how God was also telling me:
“Judy, you are precious to me and I will always have time for you.”
“Wow! Really God, you do?”
“YES”
Then the God moments started happening. First,I found an Easter reflection that talked about the precious gift of time. In the same moment, a devotional book sharing that we, as members of a family, are jewels to our Father and are precious. I then found a card given by a lovely friend of ours, written years ago that called each of the children precious. It was so cool! I then came to the third layer of this gift in that not only had my friend called me precious, and God called me precious but I now need to find the preciousness in others around me, my husband, children, friends and even strangers. That is our calling as Christians, is it not? Keep the hearts first, those precious hearts!
This morning I was given yet another layer to this gift (when will it end
) I was given a powerful YouTube video by my Mom for Mother’s Day. It talked of the preciousness of every day. Yesterday, the day flew by with me living in what I wished to be and what had been done wrong, losing all sight of the preciousness of the everyday. Now I look back. “Why did I not stop and enjoy that moment? That was a good moment.”
I vow today to live in the moment and enjoy its preciousness. For one day the ordinary will be no longer.
The power of a word…
You are precious. God thinks you are precious. The people around you are precious. This moment is precious.


