“Airplane!” she called…
Our granddaughter is two years old…
She pointed to the plane…
Her hand and arm shot up so high and straight that her shoulder looked ready to pop out of its socket…
As she pointed, she raised her eyes to the bright blue sky overhead…
She didn’t say a word….
Pointing and staring, she simply left behind everything that had been important the moment before and followed the plane…
She followed it until it vanished over the horizon…
Where perhaps another two year-old heard the roar of the engines and shouted, “Airplane!”
That night we told her there would be a “big surprise” after dinner…
She finished eating, looked at us and said…
“All done!”
“Surprise?”
“Let’s go get ice cream!” my wife said.
Her eyes widened…
Without saying a word, she immediately put down her spoon and held up her hands to get out of her booster seat…
She still hadn’t said a word as her feet met the floor and she started moving toward the garage and the car that would take her to ice cream…
With her eyes focused on the goal in front of her, she pressed on toward the prize of ice cream…
Ice cream is a rare and precious commodity in the world of a two year old…
“Ice-cream-time” is not a time for talk…
“Ice-cream-time” is a time for action…
What is your “ice-cream-time”?
What gets you so excited that your first response is simply to stop what you are doing and move in a new direction?
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” Mathew 4:18-19
And how did they answer?
Did they answer with words?
Or did they answer with actions?
At once they left their nets and followed him. Mathew 4:20
When the Holy Spirit calls to us…
How will we respond?
Will we respond with words and pious thoughts?
Or will we respond with action?
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18
