12/10/11 Lately daughter, Molly has felt like she has been playing "Where's Waldo?" but with the book Jesus Calling. The security guard had it open at the apartment of her grapic designer. One of her "Brooks Art Gallery's" teachers at a parochial school in an impoverished neighborhood had one on her desk. It had been given to her by a fellow teacher who knew she was going through a hard time. She, like the other recipients, kept the "little book with the big blessing" chain going as they too passed it on to loved ones and other teachers.
Both the security guard and the teacher shared the same comment. "This little book meets me right where I am every day. It's like it is written just for me."
I too have "found" Jesus Calling everywhere from an equestrian camp barn in middle Tennessee to nurses stations in Dallas hospitals and the receptionist desk at a Memphis heart clinic. Just this week I found one at the St. Jude gift shop and tonight at a Christmas dinner, I found one on a table in a sunroom at a home in Pickwick.
Responses have been the same as the ones my Molly related to me. I remember an e-mail from Sarah Young where she told me that she prays daily for those people who are reading Jesus Calling. I wonder if she prays that the Lord will use the words of each entry to meet her readers at the point of their need for that day. If so, that prayer is being answered in a BIG way.
Thanks Sarah for your words and the chosen scriptures that help so many of us enjoy peace in His Presence from your book. It's been an exciting hunt these last few years to see all the places Jesus Calling shows up.
It's a lot more fun than Finding Waldo---just ask my daughter!
