Indoor Snow Ball Fights and Other Unusual Happenings!

Picture from Winter 2007 NOT today!


Today was a day of unexpected and unusual happenings. Just to give you a small snapshot here are a few things that came about:

A Discussion of Hell: Today at my Thursday Noon Prayer Circle, we were discussing a book about life after death. The topic was hell. I came in near the end of the discussion and was given a paragraph on the fire and sulphur of hell to summarize and report on. Immediately my mind went back to a dark night many a year ago when I was a child and we were travelling home from Shelbyville where we had visited my maternal grandmother. Out the car window we could see what I believe was a burning barn, (I know my sister will correct me if I am wrong). My mother said: "Look kids, that's what hell looks like"... For those of you who knew my mother, you might have known that she was very matter of fact. Indeed that visual was "burned" into my little mind. While it may seem like a strange memory to be glad to share, it just made me happy to have a little bit of my mother to share with my precious prayer partners. Blessed by a hell report, now that seems unusual.

In-Laws In Agreement: You have to know my relationship with my in laws to appreciate this in its fullness. First of all, I spent an afternoon and evening with my mother in law and we got along beautifully. We were able to work side by side on a family tradition of baking cookies for the church cookie walk. Things were definitely supernaturally different. It was just amazing how God answered my prayer to make me patient with and to honor my in laws. And not only did I have agreement with my mother in law, but for the first time ever that I can recall my brother in law and I actually agreed on two different subjects. Without going into any detail my brother in law and I are polar opposites on most subjects, so for us to agree, this again was a divinely inspired event. God had His hand all over this evening.

An Indoor Snow Ball Fight: I saved my favorite for last... The biggest, most unexpected and most unusual event of the day was an indoor snowball fight initiated by my two precious boys.

While the adults all gathered in the kitchen; downstairs a devious plan was being hatched and paper snowballs were being wadded up. I only suspected something when I saw two stealth figures zip by with a large Lego bus.

Moments later a barrage of paper snowballs began pelting all of us standing in the kitchen. What joy on the faces of my sons as they chorused "snowball fight". I gleefully joined in and to my delight, my in laws joined in too. First a hesitant mother in law picked up the "snowball" as if she was headed to the trash to dispose of it. But, instead she winged it right at Ephraim and hit him in the face. For my mother in law this was a most amazing thing, because she can not stand things out of order. This was definitely out of order and quite unnerving for someone who likes to have everything in its place.

For a small moment in time, maybe three to four minutes the kitchen/open living room space became a winter wonderland. My brother in law joined in too as did my sister in law from her wheelchair. The smiles on everyone's faces were priceless. We were actually enjoying one another's company in a real way. Again, a very supernatural and divinely inspired unusual happening.

Praise the LORD for those unexpected moments. For the real relationships that He puts us in with friends and family. And for the relationship He invites us to have with His Son Jesus. Want to experience some unexpected/unusual supernatural, divinely inspired moments of your own??? Just open your heart to Jesus, He has a storehouse, He is ready to throw open. Trust Him. He always keeps His promises, sometimes in the most unexpected and unusual ways.