With very little speech occurring I sat at the kitchen counter this evening and watched my wife prepare our light supper. One of life’s great pleasures is watching someone you love. If being apart from a loved one and not being able to see them is one of life’s trials then being with a loved one and seeing them is one of life’s greatest blessings. I do so enjoy being with my grandchildren. While the noise they make could be cacophony to someone else, it is to me finer than the fruit of any composer. Some of the best weekends I have ever experienced are not ones filled with activity, but instead ones filled with loved ones’ presence.
Matthew 9:36 is an enjoyable verse, “When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.” Jesus enjoyed watching people. In Matthew 25 we read, “Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Verse after verse we hear Jesus say, “Come.” When we do that not only can He watch us but we can watch him.
Robert Frost once wrote,
“I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long.-You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf that’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, it totters when she licks it with her tongue. I sha’n’t be gone long.-You come too.”
It is quite grand to watch people we love.
Written by Roger Bothwell on July 3. 2010
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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