Bag Of Blessing

My beloved & trusty companion gave up on me. He made such a ruckus that I could not bear it anymore despite many attempts to restore his confidence in my handling. I decided to send him in for a check-up. Tele Dynamics replaced his hard drive & gave me a brand new one which means I would have to spend a great deal of time training & restoring the programs for him to recognise my pattern of usage. My poor little trusty Toshiba laptop…..the tantrums he threw resulted in me not being able to blog for a good fortnight. Now I have to spend more time with him to not let him suffer ‘fatal errors’ anymore. Saga Trees I was in Singapore over the weekend for a seminar. My host, Adrian, invited me to join him & his family to attend this hundred over year old church called St. Andrew’s Cathedral, for the morning worship just before I travelled back to KL yesterday. When I got out of the car, the saga seed on the ground struck my eye. I jumped at the chance to grab it & shouted, “Blessing!!!!” Cindy & her kids thought I was weird & funny at the same time as the entire driveway was lined with saga trees & there were seeds all over the place. What they didn’t know was, I had been looking for the seeds for years since development took away the last remaining saga trees in the places I was familiar with in KL. I had 9 miserable seeds sitting in the stereo panel casing of my car & everyday when I take the panel out, I say a little prayer to ask God for my seeds. And I ask God to take me to the trees to find my seeds. The Red Within I’ve had fondness for these seeds since I was a child but as with all things, they get lost in your quest to grow up & grow out of them. Since 1997, I wanted to pick these seeds again. Then in 2000, I found a tree but no seeds except the 9 seeds that I found. Then I decided to start a collection of all kinds of seeds starting with some fantastic looking rubber seeds! The thought of those saga seeds constantly crept into my mind as they were the reddest & prettiest to me. Then red took on a different meaning since I met Jesus. It symbolised His blood shed for me. For a tree to produce tiny red, hard seeds that burst out of their pods, is something that I still cannot fathom. Look at how majestic looking the tree is. All sprung from that one little hard, red seed. And I couldn’t get any up until now. After the service, I rushed to take a photo of the beautiful stained glass at the pew & proceeded to fields to multiply my collection of the incredibly difficult to find, saga seeds! As I was duck-walking around with Nicole & Matthew, an old lady summoned me to her, “Hey, you! Yes, you! Come here!” *Huh?* Bad enough I was dumbstruck, I walked towards her & before I could say anything, she took out bags of saga seeds that she collected over the years & offered to me, “How many bags do you want? Why don’t you take everything? Give them to whomever you wish, I have lots more.” I thanked her right to the bottom of my heart & said to her that she would never know how much this means to me. Now I have thousands!!! Blessings! “…..I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20 God can speak to you using anyone or anything that is personal to you alone. Though it may be insignificant to anybody else, my pesky saga seeds took years to multiply. It wasn't the result of me going to a Catholic church, nor am I a Catholic but as a result of God coming through at the right moment. After all this time, God has finally given me those impossible saga seeds. I thank Him for His gracious gift through this woman. “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.” Psalm 37:4 – 7 Adrian said that he has been attending this church for 25 years & nobody came to give him anything so this has got to be God’s bag of blessing to me…… Hallelujah.