She couldn’t believe what she saw in the kitchen…
A wooden box filled with dirt and corn plants…
“Well,” she thought, “That’s different.”
She was home from college on spring break…
Her senior year. She’d graduate soon.
Why would her father plant corn in the kitchen?
She forgot to ask about the box of corn until the next day..
As she drove down a country road with her father…
With corn growing on both sides…
“Why are you growing corn in the kitchen?” she asked.
“A couple of new hybrids,” he said. “I want to compare them.”
He’d grown up on the farm…
But had lived in town since high school.
Now he was a lawyer.
“A lawyer,” she thought disapprovingly, “with corn growing in his kitchen.”
If her mother were alive…
But her mother had died a decade ago.
She looked out the window at the fields…
Soon the corn disappeared …
Replaced by empty fields…
Empty fields turned to housing developments…
Housing developments gave way to industrial plants…
Industrial plants to skyscrapers of brick and concrete and steel and glass…
Her father parked the car in front of one of those tall buildings.
A little scared, she got out and walked inside…
Her first job interview…
In the accounting department of a big company.
They offered her the job.
She’d let them know in a couple of days, she said.
“God, what do you want me to do?” she asked silently, as they drove home.
The traffic and the noise of the big city fell behind them…
The walls of steel and concrete replaced once again by the walls of corn…
She relaxed.
She felt at home.
Then she knew.
She knew what she would do…
The corn in the kitchen was a sign…
A sign from God…
Any man who grew corn in his kitchen needed someone to take care of him.
She would stay home and take care of her father.
As the years passed, she married…
Had children.
Divorced.
Her father died.
One day, she sat alone in the kitchen looking at the spot where the box of corn had once been.
Had she really done what God wanted?
Had she acted to please God?
To please her father?
To avoid her fear of the unknown?
After all these years, she still didn’t know.
But she knew God loved her…
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken… Isaiah 54:10
And that was enough to give her peace…
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27
One thought on “Sign From God?”
Thank you, what is, is,
Things happen to us all and we all make choices some turn out well for out soul and others we get in thought not, not so, when one does not know if made a different choice might have turned out better or not
Bob Thank you for the reminder we are accepted in the beloved and just do our best to learn from all things that have happened bad or good and say thank you now I shall learn and not with a hard heart
As did in past over anger from things that did not go as I though should go
Acceptance woe
Ephesians 1:6Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Ephesians 1:7Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 1:13Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
13 in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,