Every Moment Matters

There were a sea of faces all around me~ children my age.
Hands outstretched, waiting to be filled with tiny, tasty goldfish~ a picture of one of the many miracles of Jesus. The 5 loaves and 2 fishes.


Another day straw cowboy hats were given to every child. I can still remember the delicious smell of that straw as it filled the gymnasium.


We made crafts with popsicle sticks and learned the song~
“STOP and Let Me Tell You
What the Lord Has Done For Me”.


I was in awe of the STOP and GO signs the leaders held up as each verse was sung.


Everything was so foreign to me at the time.


But I remembered.


These are memories I have.
Pieces of a time in my life that wasn’t the norm for my family and wouldn’t be the norm until almost ten years later.


But God knew that. He was working in this little girl’s life before she could truly understand.


He was whispering to my heart~”let me introduce you to my Son.


One day, He will be your very best friend.”


Put aside the fact that for one brief week, I was in the same church my future husband attended.


Maybe he was one of the young boys handing out hats~ or fishes.
Maybe he sat next to me as we sang.


Maybe he even smiled at me.


We never attended that church again and yet, despite moving 4 different times to 4 different cities,16 years later I met him and married him.


God has a miraculous way of using everything in our lives. Everything in our children’s lives. Nothing is by chance. Nothing is an accident.


God introduced a little girl that knew nothing about Jesus, to His Son~
She was only in Kindergarten.


And she remembered.


Vacation Bible School.


God used all the workers that week, all the “behind the scenes” helpers, every craft,
every snack
and every prize.


It all mattered.


None of them will ever know the impact they made on my life that week, until someday we meet in heaven.


But it made a difference in this little girl’s heart.


And she remembered.


Vacation Bible School.


Don’t discount the importance of our children and the impact God’s word can have on their lives.


Every moment matters.


And 52 years later that little girl will start her 28th Vacation Bible School with her husband, but this year her daughter and son in law will take the lead.


Joy will fill her heart as she looks into the eyes of each little child~


And she remembers.