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In his book Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More, author and pastor Mark Buchanan illustrates God's love through the story of Tracy.
He writes:
Tracy is one of the worship leaders at our church.
One Sunday, as she sat at the piano, she talked about the difficult week she'd just been through.
It was chaotic, she said—a mess of petty crises on top of a rash of minor accidents, all mixed up in a soup can of crazy busyness.
It had left her weary and cranky.
She got up that Sunday to lead worship and felt spent, with nothing more to give.
However, Tracy's 8-year-old daughter, Brenna, helped her gain new perspective earlier that morning.
When Tracy had walked into the living room, the window was covered with scrawl.
Using a crayon, Brenna had scribbled something across the picture window, top to bottom and side to side.
At first, it seemed like one more mess for Tracy to clean up.
Then she saw what Brenna had written: love, joy, peace, patience, kindnece, goodnece, faithfulnece, gentlnece and selfcantrol (in Brenna's delightful spelling).
Mark writes: "Tracy stopped, drank it in.
Her heart flooded with light.
It was exactly what she needed to be reminded about: the gift of the fruit of the Spirit that arises, not by our circumstances, but by Christ within us.
And then Tracy noticed one more thing Brenna had written at the edge of the window: Love one another.
Only Brenna, in her creative spelling, had written: Love won another."
As Mark concludes: "It's what Jesus has been trying to tell us all along.
You were won that way.
Now go and do likewise."
From: Mark Buchanan, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More (Thomas Nelson, 2007).
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