Why That One?

I named my new pet 'Brunhilda'. She isn't very cuddly or pettable or even glamorous, but she has something other forms of pet do not: Brunhilda coexists with the great backyard predator. Three bunnies and various birds have died this year at the paws of the cat, but not Brunhilda. We are not talking the same yard coexistence either, but on the same small patch of concrete just outside the back steps. I come out in the morning to feed the cat, which runs slightly ahead of me to the garage door, and Brunhilda hops a couple of times out onto the concrete. I suppose that if you happen to be small, greenish, and adverse to getting stomped on, you might well do the same. Well we might wonder how this little toad, perhaps two or three mouthfuls for the cat, is allowed to live while so many of the so-called cute animals are not. Their cousins the frogs get good press, but toads not so much.

If someone were to look down from a lofty view on the human race, and was allowed to know which of us held the assurance of an eternal home with God, he or she might do well to wonder: why that one? In truth, the Christians we know typically do not worry about the paparazzi, grace the covers of magazines, and earn a billion dollars each year. Somehow, though I certainly think that you all are deserving of those things (Okay, maybe not the paparazzi), we didn't make it into that crowd. When I look up 'success' in the dictionary, my picture didn't make the page, well, perhaps a bit further down beside 'sucker'. Looking at celebrity, famous, and other words the world strives after, we didn't make those definitions either. Yet, the Savior walks with us on this day.

On a Monday morning, we might wake up feeling a bit toad-like. We don't see great physical beauty in the mirror. We left our talent and grace asleep beside the bed when we got up. And great wealth not only lapped us in the rat race but laughed and shoved us into the ditch as it passed us by. The world doesn't consider us for Who's Who, and probably wouldn't list us in Who's Not. Yet, the Lord of Creation listed us in His book titled, Who's Mine!

That will make a better day for us!
Bucky